Segment-Based Injection Attacks against Collaborative Recommender Systems Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher, Runa Bhaumik, and Chad Williams   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Session 12: Security and Privacy Abstract Significant vulnerabilities have recently been identi- fied in collaborative filtering recommender systems. Researchers have shown that attackers can manipulate a systemˇ¦s recommendations by injecting biased profiles into it. In this paper, we examine attacks that concentrate on a targeted set of users with similar tastes, biasing the systemˇ¦s responses to these users. We show that such attacks are both pragmatically reasonable and also highly effective against both user-based and item-based algorithms. As a result, an attacker can mount such a "segmented" attack with little knowledge of the specific system being targeted and with strong likelihood of success. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery