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DDoS attacks are one of the most prevalent and harmful cybersecurity threats faced by organizations and individuals today. In recent years, the complexity and frequency of DDoS attacks have increased significantly, making it challenging to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zain Ahmad , Musab Ahmad , Bilal Ahmad

Deep neural networks (DNNs) demonstrate superior performance in various fields, including scrutiny and security. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Several defenses were proposed in the past to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Akshaj Veldanda , Siddharth Garg

The 2016 is remembered as the year that showed to the world how dangerous Distributed Denial of Service attacks can be. Gauge of the disruptiveness of DDoS attacks is the number of bots involved: the bigger the botnet, the more powerful the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Michele De Donno , Nicola Dragoni , Alberto Giaretta , Manuel Mazzara

Botnets are becoming increasingly prevalent as the primary enabling technology in a variety of malicious campaigns such as email spam, click fraud, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and cryptocurrency mining. Botnet technology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Kapil Sinha , Arun Viswanathan , Julian Bunn

The Internet as we know it Today, comprises several fundamental interrelated networks, among which is the Internet of Things (IoT). Despite their versatility, several IoT devices are vulnerable from a security perspective, which renders…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zainab Al-Othman , Mouhammd Alkasassbeh , Sherenaz AL-Haj Baddar

Social bots represent a new generation of bots that make use of online social networks (OSNs) as a command and control (C\&C) channel. Malicious social bots were responsible for launching large-scale spam campaigns, promoting low-cap…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Majd Latah

Today, internet and web services have become an inseparable part of our lives. Hence, ensuring continuous availability of service has become imperative to the success of any organization. But these services are often hampered by constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Hrishikesh Arun Deshpande

The enormous increase in the usage of communication networks has made protection against node and link failures essential in the deployment of reliable networks. To prevent loss of data due to node failures, a network protection strategy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Salah A. Aly , Ahmed E. Kamal

The future of the Internet is predicted to be on the cloud, resulting in more complex and more intensive computing, but possibly also a more insecure digital world. The presence of a large amount of resources organized densely is a key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Rup Kumar Deka , Dhruba Kumar Bhattacharyya , Jugal Kumar Kalita

While the Internet of things (IoT) promises to improve areas such as energy efficiency, health care, and transportation, it is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In particular, DDoS attacks work by overflowing the bandwidth of a server. But…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

Defending against botnets has always been a cat and mouse game. Cyber-security researchers and government agencies attempt to detect and take down botnets by playing the role of the cat. In this context, a lot of work has been done towards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis , Jan Helge Wolf , Leon Böck , Shankar Karuppayah , Max Mühlhäuser

The wireless ad hoc networks are highly vulnerable to distributed denial of service(DDoS) attacks because of its unique characteristics such as open network architecture, shared wireless medium and stringent resource constraints. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-06-08 S. A. Arunmozhi , Y. Venkataramani

Enterprise networks that host valuable assets and services are popular and frequent targets of distributed network attacks. In order to cope with the ever-increasing threats, industrial and research communities develop systems and methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are one of the most challenging threats to Internet security. An attacker typically compromises a large number of vulnerable hosts and uses them to flood the victim's site with malicious traffic, clogging its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Katerina J. Argyraki , David R. Cheriton

In a brave new age of global connectivity and e-commerce, interconnections via networks have heightened, creating for both individuals and organizations, a state of complete dependence upon vulnerable systems for storage and transfer of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Amit Kumar , Santosh Malhotra

Denial of service attacks pose a threat in constant growth. This is mainly due to their tendency to gain in sophistication, ease of implementation, obfuscation and the recent improvements in occultation of fingerprints. On the other hand,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jorge Maestre Vidal , Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco , Luis Javier García Villalba

Botnet as it is popularly called became fashionable in recent times owing to it embedded force on network servers. Botnet has an exponential growth of about 170, 000 within network server and client infrastructures per day. The networking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Maxwell Scale Uwadia Osagie , C. I. Okoye , Amenze Joy Osagie

Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big evolutionary step in the world of internet. The main intention behind the IoT is to enable safer living and risk mitigation on different levels of life. With the advent of IoT botnets, the view…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Kishore Angrishi

While the Internet of things (IoT) promises to improve areas such as energy efficiency, health care, and transportation, it is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In particular, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks overload the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

IThe botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-04 Ahmed M. Manasrah , Awsan Hasan , Omar Amer Abouabdalla , Sureswaran Ramadass