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Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter
June 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to today's networks, and how the Cisco Botnet Traffic Filter enables Cisco ASA appliances to fight botnets and to handle their...
Provided by: Cisco Systems
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The Design of SMS Based Heterogeneous Mobile Botnet
January 1, 2012 12:00am PST
Botnets have become one of the most serious security threats to the traditional Internet world. Although the mobile botnets have not yet caused major outbreaks worldwide in cellular network, but...
Provided by: Academy Publisher
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Your Botnet Is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover
August 14, 2009 12:00am PDT
Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and...
Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery
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As the Net Churns: Fast-Flux Botnet Observations
September 5, 2008 12:00am PDT
While botnets themselves provide a rich platform for financial gain for the botnet master, the use of infected hosts as webservers can provide an additional botnet use. Botnet herders often use...
Provided by: University of Mannheim
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Peer to Peer Botnet Detection for Cyber-Security: A Data Mining Approach
May 14, 2008 12:00am PDT
Botnet is a network of compromised hosts or bots, under the control of a human attacker known as the botmaster. Botnets are used to perform malicious actions, such as launching DDoS attacks,...
Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery
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BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection
May 10, 2008 12:00am PDT
Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection approaches work...
Provided by: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Detecting Botnet Activities Based on Abnormal DNS Traffic
October 30, 2009 12:00am PDT
The botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate...
Provided by: Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Attack Model and Detection Scheme for Botnet on 6LoWPAN
September 15, 2009 12:00am PDT
Recently, Botnet has been used to launch spam-mail, key-logging, and DDoS attacks. Botnet is a network of bots which are controlled by attacker. A lot of detection mechanisms have been proposed to...
Provided by: Springer Science+Business Media
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Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics
August 22, 2008 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on characterizing spamming botnets by leveraging both spam payload and spam server traffic properties. Towards this goal, it developed a spam signature generation framework...
Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery
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Evaluating Email's Feasibility for Botnet Command and Control
March 14, 2008 12:00am PDT
The usefulness of email has been tempered by its role in the widespread distribution of spam and malicious content. Security solutions have focused on filtering out malicious payloads and weblinks...
Provided by: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-Based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm
February 18, 2008 12:00am PST
Botnets, i.e., networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised machines connect to...
Provided by: University of Mannheim
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Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
December 1, 2007 12:00am PST
A botnet is an army of compromised machines, also known as "Zombies," that are under the command and control of a single "Botmaster." The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power...
Provided by: Cisco Systems
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Use honeypots to track and mitigate botnets
October 19, 2007 12:00am PDT
Bots pose a serious threat to both individual and corporate environments. They are often used for DDoS attacks, to send spam, and as spyware to steal sensitive information from the victim's...
Provided by: Addison Wesley Professional
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Detecting Stealthy P2P Botnets Using Statistical Traffic Fingerprints
June 7, 2011 12:00am PDT
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) botnets have recently been adopted by botmasters for their resiliency to take-down efforts. Besides being harder to take down, modern botnets tend to be stealthier in the way...
Provided by: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Lightweight C&C Based Botnet Detection Using Aho-Corasick NFA
October 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
Botnet distinguishes itself from the previous malware by having the characteristics of a C&C channel, using which a Botmaster can control the constituents of the botnet. Even though protocols like...
Provided by: PSG College of Technology
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ISPs and Ad Networks Against Botnet Ad Fraud
September 15, 2010 12:00am PDT
Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed initiatives that...
Provided by: LCA Mobile
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Defaming Botnet Toolkits: A Bottom-Up Approach to Mitigating the Threat
April 20, 2010 12:00am PDT
Botnets have become one of the most prevailing threats to today's Internet partly due to the underlying economic incentives of operating one. Botnet toolkits sold by their authors allow any layman...
Provided by: Concordia University
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Design of SMS Commanded-and-Controlled and P2P-Structured Mobile Botnets
March 1, 2010 12:00am PST
Botnets have become one of the most serious security threats to the Internet and PC users and applications. Although botnets have not yet caused major outbreaks in mobile networks, with the...
Provided by: University of Michigan
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How to Defend Against New Botnets
June 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. More importantly, these compromised "robot" computer networks do not seem to be going away...
Provided by: MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon
October 27, 2006 12:00am PDT
The academic community has long acknowledged the existence of malicious botnets, however to date, very little is known about the behavior of these distributed computing platforms. According to the...
Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery
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