Evaluating email's feasibility for botnet command and control

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 376-385

  Singh, Kapil ^a   Srivastava, Abhinav ^a   Giffin, Jonathon ^a   Lee, Wenke ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNETS; COMMAND AND CONTROL; DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS; E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MITIGATION STRATEGIES; SECURITY SOLUTIONS; SPAM E-MAILS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPAMMING;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 53349109623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2008.4630106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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