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Improving capacity for knowledge management in county governments: Perspectives from selected counties in Kenya 提高县政府的知识管理能力:来自肯尼亚选定县的观点

2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764869

J. R. Ndiege, P. K. Wamuyu

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引用次数: 1

Botnet’s Obfuscated C&C Infrastructure Take-down Approaches Based on Monitoring Centralized Zeus Bot Variant’s Propagation Model 基于监控集中式Zeus Bot变体传播模型的僵尸网络模糊C&C基础设施拆除方法

2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764837

V. Kebande, Likhwa Mlotshwa, Nickson M. Karie

{"title":"Botnet’s Obfuscated C&C Infrastructure Take-down Approaches Based on Monitoring Centralized Zeus Bot Variant’s Propagation Model","authors":"V. Kebande, Likhwa Mlotshwa, Nickson M. Karie","doi":"10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764837","url":null,"abstract":"While botnets still pose a big threat, they have also developed to be the most dangerous dark applications over the web. They are able to compromise a multitude of computers under the Command and Control (C&C) infrastructure, that is mainly controlled by a botherder/botmaster. Normally, a botnet uses malicious code to achieve its objectives and usually the motivation is based on either financial gain or Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The problem that is being addressed in this paper is structured to explore how a botnet’s C&C infrastructure can be taken down based on how the botnet propagates itself within a network. The authors have used Zeus Botnet (ZBot) propagation model as a basis for this study. The main objective is to identify ZBot propagation patterns in order to be able to propose the take down approaches of the C&C infrastructure which acts as botnet control point. It is imperative to note that, even though ZBot was mainly resilient to attacks because of its Peer-to-Peer (P2P) nature, still other Zeus variants were controlled or acted as centralized bots. The study is more inclined to exploring the centralized Zeus variants like GameOver Zeus (GOZ) and ICE-IX for purposes of identifying the approaches. Based on the ZBot attack study, the C&C infrastructure can effectively be infiltrated hence averting unwarranted botnet attacks.","PeriodicalId":420572,"journal":{"name":"2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa)","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114275875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Using Social Media To Support Community Development: A Case Study Of E-Inclusion Intermediaries In Underprivileged Communities Of South Africa 利用社会媒体支持社区发展:以南非贫困社区的电子包容中介机构为例

2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764854

Natasha Katunga, J. Njenga, Leona Craffert, L. Audenhove, Ilse Marien

引用次数: 1

eHealth in Hospital Information Management 医院信息管理中的电子健康

2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764850

M. Calado, Ana Ramos, D. Fabiano

引用次数: 1

The Role of ICT Tools in the Access of Climate Information in Rural Communities 信息通信技术工具在农村社区获取气候信息中的作用

2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa) Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764875

M. Yohannis, A. Wausi, T. Waema, M. Hutchinson

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引用次数: 4