Title
DDoS Event Forecasting using Twitter Data.
Abstract
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been significant threats to the Internet. Traditional research in cyber security focuses on detecting emerging DDoS attacks by tracing network package flow. A characteristic of DDoS defense is that rescue time is limited since the launch of attack. More resilient detection and defence models are typically more costly. We aim at predicting the likelihood of DDoS attacks by monitoring relevant text streams in social media, so that the level of defense can be adjusted dynamically for maximizing cost-effect. To our knowledge, this is a novel yet challenging research question for DDoS rescue. Because the input of this task is a text stream rather than a document, information should be collected both on the textual content of individual posts. We propose a fine-grained hierarchical stream model to capture semantic information over infinitely long history, and reveal burstiness and trends. Empirical evaluation shows that social text streams are indeed informative for DDoS forecasting, and our proposed hierarchical model is more effective compared to strong baseline text stream models and discrete bag-of-words models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.24963/ijcai.2017/580
IJCAI
Field
DocType
Citations 
Denial-of-service attack,Computer security,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Hierarchical database model,Tracing,The Internet,World Wide Web,Social media,Research question,Semantic information,Burstiness,Machine learning
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhong-qing Wang114020.28
Yue Zhang21364114.17