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Detecting Search Engine Advertising Fraud

realmeme.com — A dissection of network traffic from a "traffic generator", an application designed to artificially boost the network traffic of a website to defraud advertisers. It describes how I identified the generator from flaws in its design. Links are included to the strategic and tactical methodology I used to detect a website with anomalous traffic.

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