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 …

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 …

Botnet is regarded as one of the most sophisticated vulnerability threats nowadays. A large
portion of network traffic is dominated by Botnets. Botnets are conglomeration of trade PCs …

(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 …

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 …

In this work we present a characterization of spam on Twitter. We find that 8% of 25 million
URLs posted to the site point to phishing, malware, and scams listed on popular blacklists …

Botnets continue to be a significant problem on the Internet. Accordingly, a great deal of
research has focused on methods for detecting and mitigating the effects of botnets. Two of …

The presence of bots has been felt in many aspects of social media. Twitter, one example of
social media, has especially felt the impact, with bots accounting for a large portion of its …

Today's smartphone application markets host an ever increasing number of applications.
The sheer number of applications makes their review a daunting task. We propose …

Recent Botnets such as Conficker, Kraken and Torpig have used DNS based" domain
fluxing" for command-and-control, where each Bot queries for existence of a series of …