Evaluating Bluetooth as a medium for botnet command and control

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6201 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 61-80

  Singh, Kapil ^a   Sangal, Samrit ^a   Jain, Nehil ^a   Traynor, Patrick ^a   Lee, Wenke ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNETS; COMMAND AND CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MALWARES; NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

BLUETOOTH; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; VIRUSES;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 77955030814     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14215-4_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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