{"id":12152,"date":"2018-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2018\/machine-learning-on-dns-data-to-discover-security-threats\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:00:00","slug":"machine-learning-on-dns-data-to-discover-security-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2018\/machine-learning-on-dns-data-to-discover-security-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Learning on DNS Data to Discover Security Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Webroot, Inc.<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science, 2017-18<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Dave Krich,  Kiran Kumar,  Hal Lonas,  Trung Tran,  Cathy Yang<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Lisa Kaczmarczyk<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Julia McCarthy (PM),  Anthony Romm,  Reiko Tojo,  Danny Wang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">\n<p>In this project, the goals were to aggregate DNS-level data, apply machine learning approaches to identify command and control (C&#038;C) botnets through automated analysis of live traffic patterns, and construct a website for dynamic visualization of threats. Visualizations help the user pinpoint where botnet attacks are coming from, identify geographic hotspots for botnet activity, and find out who is at risk for infection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webroot, Inc. Computer Science, 2017-18 Liaison(s): Dave Krich, Kiran Kumar, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran, Cathy Yang Advisor(s): Lisa Kaczmarczyk Students(s): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","tag-webroot-inc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}