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Immunology Inspired Detection Of Data Theft From Autonomous Network Activity, Theodore O. Cochran
Immunology Inspired Detection Of Data Theft From Autonomous Network Activity, Theodore O. Cochran
CCE Theses and Dissertations
The threat of data theft posed by self-propagating, remotely controlled bot malware is increasing. Cyber criminals are motivated to steal sensitive data, such as user names, passwords, account numbers, and credit card numbers, because these items can be parlayed into cash. For anonymity and economy of scale, bot networks have become the cyber criminal’s weapon of choice. In 2010 a single botnet included over one million compromised host computers, and one of the largest botnets in 2011 was specifically designed to harvest financial data from its victims. Unfortunately, current intrusion detection methods are unable to effectively detect data extraction techniques …
Feature Selection And Classification Methods For Decision Making: A Comparative Analysis, Osiris Villacampa
Feature Selection And Classification Methods For Decision Making: A Comparative Analysis, Osiris Villacampa
CCE Theses and Dissertations
The use of data mining methods in corporate decision making has been increasing in the past decades. Its popularity can be attributed to better utilizing data mining algorithms, increased performance in computers, and results which can be measured and applied for decision making. The effective use of data mining methods to analyze various types of data has shown great advantages in various application domains. While some data sets need little preparation to be mined, whereas others, in particular high-dimensional data sets, need to be preprocessed in order to be mined due to the complexity and inefficiency in mining high dimensional …