With the rapid development of botnet, the Internet has been facing the growing and disastrous threats. These threats can disable the infrastructure and cause the financial damages, which leads to a severe challenge for the global network security. In order to defense and counter the botnet, the detection is absolutely the basis. Therefore, the research on botnet detection has recently become a hot topic in the field of network security. After analyzing the proposed detection techniques, the authors present the basic process of botnet detection, and make classification for these techniques. Fur...
