Over the past decades, researchers have been proposing different Intrusion Detection
approaches to deal with the increasing number and complexity of threats for computer …

Security metrics have received significant attention. However, they have not been
systematically explored based on the understanding of attack-defense interactions, which …

Botnets, which are networks formed by malware-compromised machines, have become a
serious threat to the Internet. Such networks have been created to conduct large-scale …

Our current defenses against IoT malware may not be adequate to remediate an IoT
malware attack similar to the Mirai botnet. This work seeks to investigate this matter by …

Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, distributed denial-
of-service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection …

Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the
root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. A particularly …

We present the Crossfire attack--a powerful attack that degrades and often cuts off network
connections to a variety of selected server targets (eg, servers of an enterprise, a city, a …

Malware is one of the most serious security threats on the Internet today. In fact, most
Internet problems such as spam e-mails and denial of service attacks have malware as their …

Among the various forms of malware, botnets are emerging as the most serious threat
against cyber-security as they provide a distributed platform for several illegal activities such …

A number of detection and defense mechanisms have emerged in the last decade to tackle
the botnet phenomenon. It is important to organize this knowledge to better understand the …