Botnets and cyber security: Battling online threats

Cyber Security Standards, Practices and Industrial Applications: Systems and Methodologies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 75-89

  Manasrah, Ahmed Mansour ^a   Abouabdalla, Omar Amer ^a   Mayeh, Moein ^a   Suppiah, Nur Nadiyah ^a  

^a National Advanced IPv6 Center   (Malaysia)

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EID: 84887444640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-851-4.ch005     Document Type: Chapter

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