Title :
Measuring Botnet Size by Using URL and Collaborative MailServers
Author :
Jun Hu ; Li, Zhitang ; Yao, Dezhong ; Yu, Junfeng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
It is widely accepted that botnets pose one of the most significant threats to the Internet. But the size of the botnet continues to be an issue of debate among the research community. We develop new techniques to measure botnet size by using traces of emails from HUST Mail Server. In this trace, we have successfully identied the size of botnets through URL and collaborative mail servers. Our research findings also confirm other researcher´s observations derived by different methods.
Keywords :
Internet; groupware; security of data; unsolicited e-mail; Internet threat; URL; botnet size measuring; collaborative mail server; email; security-of-data; spam; Cloning; Computer science; Computer security; Electronic mail; IP networks; International collaboration; Size measurement; Uniform resource locators; Web and internet services; Web server; botnet; security; spam;
Conference_Titel :
Networking and Services, 2009. ICNS '09. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3688-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3586-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICNS.2009.40
