Not-a-Bot (NAB): Improving Service Availability in the Face of Botnet Attacks

A large fraction of email spam, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and click-fraud on web advertisements are caused by traffic sent from compromised machines that form botnets. This paper posits that by identifying human-generated traffic as such, one can service it with improved reliabil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gummadi, Ramakrishna, Balakrishnan, Hari, Maniatis, Petros, Ratnasamy, Sylvia
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: USENIX Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73143
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1455-9652