Title: A taxonomy of internet traceback

Authors: Ihab Hamadeh, George Kesidis

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Abstract: Tracing back an anonymous hacker in the internet has been very hard to accomplish mainly due to the complexity of the internet and the lack of any deployed technology targeting this goal. In this paper, we introduce the most prominent research work done in the area of traceback. The traceback problem could be separated into IP traceback, traceback across stepping stones and worm traceback.

Keywords: IP traceback; internet traceback; attack attribution; forensics; distributed denial-of-service; DDoS attacks; worms; stepping stones; anonymous hackers; worm traceback; security; networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2006.010823

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2006 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.54 - 61

Published online: 06 Sep 2006 *

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