Active versus Passive Malware Collection.

An exploration of active and passive malware honeypots reveals that the two systems yield vastly different malware collections and that peer-to-peer file sharing is an important, but often overlooked, malware source.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Computer (00189162) Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 59 - 66
Main Authors:	Lin, Ying-Dar, Lee, Chia-Yin, Wu, Yu-Sung, Ho, Pei-Hsiu, Wang, Fu-Yu, Tsai, Yi-Lang
Format:	Article
Published:	IEEE Apr2014
Subjects:	Malware Honeypots (Network security) Peer-to-peer file sharing Internet security Computer network security
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

Description
Summary:	An exploration of active and passive malware honeypots reveals that the two systems yield vastly different malware collections and that peer-to-peer file sharing is an important, but often overlooked, malware source.