Autonomic Author Identification in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Sicong Shao Cihan Tunc Amany Al-Shawi Salim Hariri NSF Center for Cloud and NSF Center for Cloud and National Center for NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Autonomic Computing Cybersecurity Technology Autonomic Computing The University of Arizona, The University of Arizona, King Abdulaziz City for Science The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Tucson, Arizona and Technology, Tucson, Arizona
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[email protected] [email protected] Abstract— With the advances in Internet technologies and services, tracing illegitimate messages is an important cybersecurity the social media has been gaining excessive popularity, especially because research problem. Author identification for analyzing online these technologies provide anonymity where they use nicknames to post messages is one of the suggested solutions, which can be their messages. Unfortunately, the anonymity feature has been exploited by the cyber-criminals to hide their identities and their operations. Hence, formulated as assigning a writing among a set of the given there is a growing interest in cybersecurity research domain to identify the authors [3]. The goal of the research presented in this paper authors of malicious messages and activities. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is to develop methods for author identification in cyberspace channels are widely used to exchange messages and information among and the ability to group intercepted anonymous messages that malicious users involved in cybercrimes. In this paper, we present an belong to the same authors as well as those generated by autonomic author identification technique based on personality profile known terrorists or cyber-criminals [30].