Abstract
Conference Title: 2017 6th International Conference on Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions) (ICRITO) Conference Start Date: 2017, Sept. 20 Conference End Date: 2017, Sept. 22 Conference Location: Noida, India Recently, the political travails in the USA brought to light the problem of fake news as a serious issue in swaying public opinion. The problem is not new; it probably dates back thousands of years and was identified by Sun Tzu in his famous writing about the art of war. But the phenomenal growth of social media created an environment where fake news can be generated and propagated with unprecedented ease and speed. This talk will draw on the parallels of the problem of fake news with the problem of intrusion detection that has been of great interest to the computer resilience community. Of particular interest is the question of whether the community can project its research to solve this practical issue, or if there are fundamental issues in this analogy that prevent these techniques from tackling the problem.