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The existing peer-to-peer networks have several problems such as fake content distribution, free riding, white-washing and poor search scalability, lack of a robust trust model and absence of user privacy protection mechanism. Although,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

Botnet is one of the numerous attacks ravaging the networking environment. Its approach is said to be brutal and dangerous to network infrastructures as well as client systems. Since the introduction of botnet, different design methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Maxwell Scale Uwadia Osagie , Amenze Joy Osagie

The security pitfalls of IoT devices make it easy for the attackers to exploit the IoT devices and make them a part of a botnet. Once hundreds of thousands of IoT devices are compromised and become the part of a botnet, the attackers use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Faisal Hussain , Syed Ghazanfar Abbas , Ubaid U. Fayyaz , Ghalib A. Shah , Abdullah Toqeer , Ahmad Ali

Pedestrian detection in crowded scenes is a challenging problem, because occlusion happens frequently among different pedestrians. In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient detection network to hunt pedestrians in crowd scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Cheng Chi , Shifeng Zhang , Junliang Xing , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li , Xudong Zou

The IoT is a network of interconnected everyday objects called things that have been augmented with a small measure of computing capabilities. Lately, the IoT has been affected by a variety of different botnet activities. As botnets have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Nickolaos Koroniotis , Nour Moustafa , Elena Sitnikova , Jill Slay

A flow approach to community detection in complex network and multilayer network systems is proposed. Two methods have been developed to search for communities in a network system (NS). The first of them is based on the calculation of flow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-21 Olexandr Polishchuk

Simulators are the most dominant and eminent tool for analyzing and investigating different type of networks. The simulations can be executed with less cost as compared to large scale experiment as less computational resources are required…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Mansoor Ebrahim , Shujaat Khan , Syed Sheraz Ul Hasan Mohani

Botnets are one of the online threats with the biggest presence, causing billionaire losses to global economies. Nowadays, the increasing number of devices connected to the Internet makes it necessary to analyze large amounts of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Javier Velasco-Mata , Víctor González-Castro , Eduardo Fidalgo , Enrique Alegre

Distributed link-flooding attacks constitute a new class of attacks with the potential to segment large areas of the Internet. Their distributed nature makes detection and mitigation very hard. This work proposes a novel framework for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-09 hristos Liaskos , Vasileios Kotronis , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Subhash Gurappa , Yashas Hariprasad , Sundararaj Sitharama Iyengar , Naveen Kumar Chaudhary

The importance of social media in our daily lives has unfortunately led to an increase in the spread of misinformation, political messages and malicious links. One of the most popular ways of carrying out those activities is using automated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Salvador Lopez-Joya , Jose A. Diaz-Garcia , M. Dolores Ruiz , Maria J. Martin-Bautista

Most of the peers accessing the services are under the assumption that the service accessed in a P2P network is utmost secured. By means of prevailing hard security mechanisms, security goals like authentication, authorization, privacy, non…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-13 S. Udhaya Shree , Dr. M. S. Saleem Basha

Botnets have come a long way since their inception a few decades ago. Originally toy programs written by network hobbyists, modern-day botnets can be used by cyber criminals to steal billions of dollars from users, corporations, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Nathan Goodman

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded opportunities for innovation but also increased exposure to botnet-driven cyberattacks. Conventional detection methods often struggle with scalability, privacy, and adaptability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Taha M. Mahmoud , Naima Kaabouch

Botnet attacks are a major threat to networked systems because of their ability to turn the network nodes that they compromise into additional attackers, leading to the spread of high volume attacks over long periods. The detection of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Erol Gelenbe , Mert Nakıp

The paper has two objectives. The first is to study rigorously the transient behavior of some P2P networks whenever information is replicated and disseminated according to epidemic-like dynamics. The second is to use the insight gained from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Eitan Altman , Philippe Nain , Adam Shwartz , Yuedong Xu

Social media has become a key medium of communication in today's society. This realisation has led to many parties employing artificial users (or bots) to mislead others into believing untruths or acting in a beneficial manner to such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Rohan Veit , Michael Lones

The state of security demands innovative solutions to defend against targeted attacks due to the growing sophistication of cyber threats. This study explores the nefarious tactic known as "watering hole attacks using supervised neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Mst. Nishita Aktar , Sornali Akter , Md. Nusaim Islam Saad , Jakir Hosen Jisun , Kh. Mustafizur Rahman , Md. Nazmus Sakib

Phishing is an increasingly sophisticated form of cyberattack that is inflicting huge financial damage to corporations throughout the globe while also jeopardizing individuals' privacy. Attackers are constantly devising new methods of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Asif Newaz , Farhan Shahriyar Haq , Nadim Ahmed

P2P systems have grown dramatically in recent years. The most popular type of P2P systems are file sharing networks, which are used to share various types of content over the Internet. Due to the increase in popularity of P2P systems, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-09-20 Yuqing Zhou