Peer-to-peer botnets are a relatively new yet rapidly growing Internet threat. In the year since its introduction in January 2007, the Storm Worm peer-to-peer botnet has become the largest botnet on the Internet. Unlike previous botnets operating ov
Botnets, i.e., networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised machines connect to the central server and wait for commands. However, t
Since the advent of distributed intruder tools in the late 1990s, defenders have striven to identify and take down as much of the attack network as possible, as fast as possible.This has never been an easy task, owing in large part to thewide distri
Computer worms evolved continually, faster and smarter. Proactive P2P worms with new “gene” propagate over logical P2P overlay networks defined by peer relationship. Observations suggest that the node degrees of an unstructured P2P network are power
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 6th Edition Solutions to Review Questions and Problems Version Date: May 2012 This document contains the solutions to review questions and problems for the 5th edition of Computer Networking: A Top-Down Appr
