Homework #20 - Botnets - Due Tuesday Nov 16, 9AM

Read the paper Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover, Brett Stone-Gross et al, CCS 2009

1. Briefly write up your views of:
   1. What are the main contributions of this paper?

   2. What parts of the paper do you find unclear? (optional)

   3. What parts of the paper are questionable? (That is, you think a conclusion may be wrong, an approach or evaluation technically flawed, or data ill-presented.)

2. Pick a facet of the botnet problem that interests you and frame your thoughts on the issues it raises with respect to: threat/significance, defense, arms-race evolution, research challenges/opportunities in terms of how one might go about investigating it further, and associated ethical/legal issues (if any). Provide citations/URLs for any papers/web resources that you drew upon.