Worms and viruses and botnets, Oh My!

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 52-58

  Schaffer, Gregory P ^a  

^a Alltel Communications ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VIRUSES; LAW ENFORCEMENT; SECURITY OF DATA; WEBSITES;

BOTNET ATTACK; CYBERCRIME; DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS); MALWARES;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 33746642190     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2006.83     Document Type: Review

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