Gail-Joon Ahn (gahn at uncc period edu) PGPkey
Bill Chu (billchu at uncc period edu) PGPkey
We have submitted our application to Honeynet Research Alliance. Current efforts are focused around studying bots and botnets using mwcolloect. Next report is expected in Nov. 2006. More info can be found in Lessons Learned.
"Locating Zombie Nodes and Botmasters in Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Botnets" by Chris Nunnery, Brent ByungHoon Kang, and Vikram Sharma, and Julian Grizzard, in USENIX Security Symposium (poster session) 2007.
"Exploring the Social and Technical Aspects of Political Conflict On-Line" by Thomas J. Holt, L. Leslie, J. Soles, and B. Spaulding, in USENIX Security Symposium (poster session) 2007.
"Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Overview and Case Study" By Julian B. Grizzard, Vikaram Sharma, Chris Nunnery, Brent ByungHoon Kang, and David Dagon, in HOTBOT 2007.