Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

497Attacks on Social Media andData Analytics Solutions

In total, we generate 250,000 records and four different data sets having chunk sizes 250, 500, 750,

and 1000, respectively. Each data set has 50% positive instances and 50% negative.

Botnet data set: Botnets are networks of compromised hosts known as bots, all under the control

of a human attacker known as the botmaster (Barford and Yegneswaran, 2006). The botmaster can

issue commands to the bots to perform malicious actions, such as launching DDoS attacks, spam-

ming, spying, and so on. Botnets are widely regarded as an enormous emerging threat to the Internet

community. Many cutting-edge botnets apply P2P technology to reliably and covertly communicate

as the botnet topology evolves. ...