The Reign of Botnets: Defending Against Abuses, Bots and Fraud on the Internet

Abstract

The book includes: A description of common bot detection techniques exploring the difference between positive and negative security strategies and other key concepts; A method for assessing and analyzing bot activity, to evaluate the accuracy of the detection and understand the botnet sophistication; A discussion about the challenge of data collection for the purpose of providing security and balancing the ever-present needs for user privacy.