Open WiFi networks: Lethal weapons for botnets?

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2631-2635

  Knysz, Matthew ^a   Hu, Xin ^a   Zeng, Yuanyuan ^a   Shin, Kang G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOTNETS; DDOS ATTACK; EVALUATION RESULTS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SAN FRANCISCO; SINGLE NETWORKS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WI FI NETWORKS;

WI-FI;

EID: 84861598862     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2012.6195668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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