Information communications technology systems are facing an increasing number of cyber
security threats, the majority of which are originated by insiders. As insiders reside behind …

Threats of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been increasing day-by-day due
to rapid development of computer networks and associated infrastructure, and millions of …

The demand for Internet security has escalated in the last two decades because the rapid
proliferation in the number of Internet users has presented attackers with new detrimental …

The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by
storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed several high-profile targets with massive distributed …

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but
disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to …

The results of botnet detection methods are usually presented without any comparison.
Although it is generally accepted that more comparisons with third-party methods may help …

Many botnet detection systems employ a blacklist of known command and control (C&C)
domains to detect bots and block their traffic. Similar to signature-based virus detection, such …

In the last years there has been an increasing interest in the security of process control and
SCADA systems. Furthermore, recent computer attacks such as the Stuxnet worm, have …

(57) ABSTRACT A method for identifying a botnet in a network, including analyzing historical
network data using a pre-determined heuristic to determine values of a feature in the …

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 …