Botnet command and control mechanisms

2009 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 564-568

  Zeidanloo, Hossein Rouhani ^a   Manaf, Azizah Abdul ^a  

^a MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bot; Botnet; Centralized; Decentralized; P2P

Indexed keywords

BOTNETS; COMMAND AND CONTROL; CRITICAL COMPONENT; CYBER-ATTACKS; DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK; MALICIOUS ACTIVITIES; NETWORK ASSETS;

COMPUTER CRIME; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950505862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCEE.2009.151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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