Characterizing botnets from email spam records

LEET 2008 - 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, Spyware, Worms, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhuang, Li ^a   Dunagan, John ^b   Simon, Daniel R ^b   Wang, Helen J ^b   Osipkov, Ivan ^b   Hulten, Geoff ^b   Tygar, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRONIC MAIL;

BOTNETS; E-MAIL SPAM; HOTMAIL; SPAM EMAILS; WEB MAIL;

BOTNET;

EID: 85084095135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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