Essays on Botnet

Part 1

Honey potting is an optimal detection method of botnets. Honeypots can be set up to listen for rogue connections and attract them (Wang et al. 2010). In today’s networks and the internet, honeypots have been successfully deployed to attract botnets and expose their membership and attacker behaviors. Honeypots are also optimal because they can be customized to increase their effectiveness depending on the use intended. For example in peer to peer networks they can be customized to emulate a node or a peer. As a security director, I would consider implementing a honeypot as a security control. Honeypots ...

It is an accepted fact nowadays that our current society is largely dependent on cyber technologies. Majority of people store their personal files and information online, do transactions over the Internet, and use the World Wide Web as one of their primary forms of communication. Aside from people, many companies and economies are powered by the internet. Thus, it can be said that the internet is an indispensable part of today’s society. Despite this fact, the World Wide Web is still largely unprotected due to its status as a free and autonomous system, free from any governing bodies ...

Anti-spam interventions lack the proper mechanism and framework to undertake their campaigns. The understanding of spam advertising lacks proper structure. There are a lot of benefits with the use of spam advertising. Many enterprises are seen to come out of this industry.

This presentation will give a full process and the resources that are used to monetize spam email. This will act to show the extent to which spam email creation has been beneficial in the advertising and the fact that it takes into consideration the enterprise process of starting a business. All the requirements to start a business are considered. ...

Smartphones provide an efficient and convenient platform to access, find, and share information across the globe; nonetheless, the presence of this information has caused eyebrows due to an upsurge of cyber-attacks. At the moment, cyber threats include Trojans, viruses, botnets, and toolkits. Currently, 95% of smartphones lacks pre-installed security software. The absence of security provides an opportunity to cyber attackers to hack popular devices including Androids, iPhone and Blackberry. The traditional security software installed in personal computers (PCs), like firewalls, antivirus and encryption lacks in mobile devices. Furthermore, the level of vulnerability has increased because most people are using ...

Growing Popularity on the Internet 3

Threats on the Internet 5 Combatting Security Threats 9 Cyber security Threats 11 Safeguarding the Open Internet 13 Security Tokens 15 Other industry features on the Internet 16 Strain between Cyber security and Open Internet 16 We Have No Control over Security on the Internet 18 Conclusion 19

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Security on the Internet The internet is an integral part of modern communication. Yet it is also the source of many security issues of private information because of its widespread nature and availability. These security issues are associated partly to the inherent ...

Introduction to the problem

The last decade has seen an increased improvement in the technology sector. At every instance, new technological advances are emerging. As technology brings in new, faster and more efficient processes, the security threats also increase, as well. For example, years back, computers were just stand-alone systems not interconnected in any way. With time, there was a need to create systems that would be interconnected through local area connection for ease of sharing information and resources. Further to the technological developments, the world became a global village whereby millions of computers are interconnected across the globe. Interestingly, as the computers shifted from, ...

Cyber Terrorism

A man of Brazilian origin by the name Leni de Abreu Neto was on August 22, 2008 charged in New Orleans by a grand jury for his participation in a conspiracy to sell computers infected with malicious software. Leni, 35, who hails from Taubate, Brazil, was charged with conspiracy to damage computers globally. It is alleged that over 100,000 were actually damaged as a result of the deeds of Leni and his accomplices who include 19 year old Nasir Nordin from Sneek, Netherlands. The indictment stated that Leni and his coconspirators participated in using, leasing, maintaining and selling an illegal botnet. ...