Though it is common practice to treat synchronization primitives for multiprocessors as
abstract data types, they are in reality machine instructions on registers. A crucial theoretical …

In this paper we present empirical results and speculative analysis based on observations
collected over a two month period from studies with two high interaction honeynets …

Network traffic has traditionally exhibited temporal locality in the header field of packets.
Such locality is intuitive and is a consequence of the semantics of network protocols …

The proliferation of malicious soffware—so called malware—poses a major threat to the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data stored and communicated using the …

Honeynets have become an important tool for researchers and network operators. However,
the lack of a unified honeynet data model has impeded their effectiveness, resulting in …

Over the past decade the Internet has emerged as a key communication platform for
businesses and private users demonstrated by an exponential increase of hosts connected …

This dissertation studies how to defend against denial of service (DoS) attacks in computer
networks. As it is not possible to prevent these attacks, one must concentrate on mitigating …

Honeynets have become an important tool for researchers and network operators. However,
the lack of a unified honeynet data model has impeded their effectiveness, resulting in …

Dissertation 4-21 Page 1 ABSTRACT Title of Document: EMPIRICAL STUDIES BASED ON
HONEYPOTS FOR CHARACTERIZING ATTACKERS BEHAVIOR Bertrand Sobesto, Doctor of …

World wide data infrastructure has increased in dimension and complexity due to
consolidation, centralization and virtualization trends during the last 10 years. Being able to …