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See detailTowards a Management Plane for Smart Contracts: Ethereum Case Study
Khan, Nida UL; Lahmadi, Abdelkader; Francois, Jerome et al

in NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (2018)

Blockchain is an emerging foundational technology with the potential to create a novel economic and social system. The complexity of the technology poses many challenges and foremost amongst these are ... [more ▼]

Blockchain is an emerging foundational technology with the potential to create a novel economic and social system. The complexity of the technology poses many challenges and foremost amongst these are monitoring and management of blockchain-based decentralized applications. In this paper, we design, implement and evaluate a novel system to enable management operations in smart contracts. A key aspect of our system is that it facilitates the integration of these operations through dedicated ’managing’ smart contracts to provide data filtering as per the role of the smart contract-based application user. We evaluate the overhead costs of such data filtering operations after post-deployment analyses of five categories of smart contracts on the Ethereum public testnet, Rinkeby. We also build a monitoring tool to display public blockchain data using a dashboard coupled with a notification mechanism of any changes in private data to the administrator of the monitored decentralized application. [less ▲]

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See detailBotGM: Unsupervised Graph Mining to Detect Botnets in Traffic Flows
Lagraa, Sofiane UL; François, Jérôme; Lahmadi, Abdelkader et al

in CSNet 2017 Conference Proceedings (2017)

Botnets are one of the most dangerous and serious cybersecurity threats since they are a major vector of large-scale attack campaigns such as phishing, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ... [more ▼]

Botnets are one of the most dangerous and serious cybersecurity threats since they are a major vector of large-scale attack campaigns such as phishing, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, trojans, spams, etc. A large body of research has been accomplished on botnet detection, but recent security incidents show that there are still several challenges remaining to be addressed, such as the ability to develop detectors which can cope with new types of botnets. In this paper, we propose BotGM, a new approach to detect botnet activities based on behavioral analysis of network traffic flow. BotGM identifies network traffic behavior using graph-based mining techniques to detect botnets behaviors and model the dependencies among flows to traceback the root causes then. We applied BotGM on a publicly available large dataset of Botnet network flows, where it detects various botnet behaviors with a high accuracy without any prior knowledge of them. [less ▲]

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