Botnets, which are networks formed by malware-compromised machines, have become a
serious threat to the Internet. Such networks have been created to conduct large-scale …

We are currently moving from the Internet society to a mobile society where more and more
access to information is done by previously dumb phones. For example, the number of …

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 …

The domain name service (DNS) plays an important role in the operation of the Internet,
providing a two-way map** between domain names and their numerical identifiers. Given …

We present a new kind of network perimeter monitoring strategy, which focuses on
recognizing the infection and coordination dialog that occurs during a successful malware …

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 …

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 …

Among the various forms of malware, botnets are emerging as the most serious threat
against cyber-security as they provide a distributed platform for several illegal activities such …

As more and more Internet-based attacks arise, organizations are responding by deploying
an assortment of security products that generate situational intelligence in the form of logs …

We present the Crossfire attack--a powerful attack that degrades and often cuts off network
connections to a variety of selected server targets (eg, servers of an enterprise, a city, a …