Our ACSAC’07 paper “A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures” (by David Dagon, Guofei Gu, Christopher P. Lee, and Wenke Lee) received the Test of Time Paper Award at this year’s ACSAC conference (2023)! We are so honored and humbled to receive this recognition for our botnet research in 2007!
Some background on the award from ACSAC: “These awards provide an opportunity to honor papers that have been published at ACSAC that have had enduring significance and impact to the security community. The committee considered papers published more than 15 years ago, and discussed their impact on academia, industry, and government. “