Title :
Botnets, and the cybercriminal underground
Author :
Mielke, Clinton J., II ; Chen, Hsinchun
Author_Institution :
ShadowServer Found., Univ. of Arizona Tucson, Tucson, AZ
Abstract :
An underground community of cyber criminals has grown in recent years with powerful technologies capable of inflicting serious economic and infrastructural harm in the digital age. This paper serves as an introduction to the world of botnets and to the efforts of the nonprofit group ldquoThe ShadowServer Foundationrdquo to track them. A data mining exploration is performed on ShadowServerpsilas datasets to investigate possible classification mechanisms for threat assessment.
Keywords :
computer crime; computer viruses; data mining; Botnet; ShadowServer datasets; The ShadowServer Foundation; cyber criminal underground; data mining; threat assessment; Computer crime; Data mining; Government; Information analysis; Internet; Military computing; Partial response channels; Power generation economics; Social network services; Uniform resource locators; Botnets; SNA; clustering;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008. ISI 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2414-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2415-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISI.2008.4565058
