Botnets: Architectures, Countermeasures, and Challenges

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Dr. Marios Anagnostopoulos received his Ph.D. degree in information andcommunication systems engineering from the Department of Information andCommunication Systems Engineering University of the Aegean Greece in 2016.The title of his doctoral thesis was DNS as a multipurpose attack vector.Currently he is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology (NTNU). Prior to joining NTNU he worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Singapore University of Technology and Design(SUTD). His research interests are in the fields of network security and privacymobile and wireless networks security cyber-physical security and blockchain insecurity and privacy.Dr. Georgios Kambourakis received the Ph.D. degree in information and communicationsystems engineering from the Department of Information and CommunicationsSystems Engineering University of the Aegean Greece where he iscurrently an associate professor and the head of the department. His researchinterests are in the fields of mobile and wireless networks security and privacy. Hehas over 120 refereed publications in the aforementioned fields of study. For moreinformation please visit http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/gkamb.Dr. Weizhi Meng is currently an assistant professor in the Cyber Security SectionDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Technical Universityof Denmark (DTU) Denmark. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer sciencefrom the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) China. Prior to joining DTU heworked as a research scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research A*Star Singaporeand as a senior research associate in CS Department CityU. He won the OutstandingAcademic Performance Award during his doctoral study and is a recipient ofthe Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Outstanding Paper Award forYoung Engineers/Researchers in both 2014 and 2017. He is also a recipient of BestPaper Award from ISPEC 2018 and Best Student Paper Award from NSS 2016. Hisprimary research interests are cyber security and intelligent technology in securityincluding intrusion detection smartphone security biometric authentication HCIsecurity trust management blockchain in security and malware analysis.Dr. Peng Zhou is currently an associate professor at Shanghai University. He hasreceived his Ph.D. degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University andworked as a research fellow in Singapore Nanyang Technological University forone year. His research interests include network security computer worms andpropagation and machine learning.