Fighting botnets with economic uncertainty

Security and Communication Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1104-1113

  Li, Zhen ^a   Liao, Qi ^b   Blaich, Andrew ^b   Striegel, Aaron ^b  

^a ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Botnet; DDoS spam; Economics; Uncertainty; Virtual bots; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; PROFITABILITY; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

DDOS SPAM; DECISION-MAKING OPTIMIZATION; ECONOMIC APPROACH; ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; THEORETICAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY; VIRTUAL BOTS;

BOTNET;

EID: 80053112937     PISSN: 19390114     EISSN: 19390122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sec.235     Document Type: Article

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