Mitigating malicious feedback attacks in trust management systems. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chong, Soon Keow; Abawajy, Jemal H.
• Is Part Of: International journal on trust management in computing and communications. Volume 3:Number 1(2015)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: e-commerce -- electronic commerce -- feedback vulnerabilities -- malicious attacks -- reputation -- unfair ratings -- trust management -- online shopping -- rating attacks -- falsified feedback -- ratings manipulation -- simulation; Data protection -- Periodicals; Database management -- Periodicals; Computer security -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing departments -- Security measures -- Periodicals; 005.8
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2048-8378

Abstract

In electronic commerce (e-commerce) environment, trust management has been identified as vital component for establishing and maintaining successful relational exchanges between the trading partners. As trust management systems depend on the feedbacks provided by the trading partners, they are fallible to strategic manipulation of the rating attacks. Therefore, in order to improve the reliability of the trust management systems, an approach that addresses feedback-related vulnerabilities is paramount. This paper proposes an approach for identifying and actioning of falsified feedbacks to make trust management systems robust against rating manipulation attacks. The viability of the proposed approach is studied experimentally and the results of various simulation experiments show that the proposed approach can be highly effective in identifying falsified feedbacks.