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DSN
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Assessing the Attack Threat due to IRC Channels
This practical experience report presents the results of an investigation into the threat of attacks associated with the chat medium IRC. A combination of simulated users (i.e., b...
Robert Meyer, Michel Cukier
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Behavioural Correlation for Detecting P2P Bots
In the past few years, IRC bots, malicious programs which are remotely controlled by the attacker through IRC servers, have become a major threat to the Internet and users. These ...
Yousof Al-Hammadi, Uwe Aickelin
DSN
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a Theory of Insider Threat Assessment
Insider attacks are a well-known problem acknowledged as a threat as early as 1980s. The threat is attributed to legitimate users who abuse their privileges, and given their famil...
Ramkumar Chinchani, Anusha Iyer, Hung Q. Ngo, Sham...
POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Assessing security threats of looping constructs
There is a clear intuitive connection between the notion of leakage of information in a program and concepts from information theory. This intuition has not been satisfactorily pi...
Pasquale Malacaria
ICEGOV
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Formal threat descriptions for enhancing governmental risk assessment
Compared to the last decades, we have recently seen more and more governmental applications which are provided via the Internet directly to the citizens. Due to the long history o...
Andreas Ekelhart, Stefan Fenz, Thomas Neubauer, Ed...