Worms are self-replicating malicious programs that represent a major security threat for the Internet, as they can infect and damage a large number of vulnerable hosts at timescal...
Abstract. Sophisticated worms that use precomputed hitlists of vulnerable targets are especially hard to contain, since they are harder to detect, and spread at rates where even au...
We give the first systematic investigation of the design space of worm defense system strategies. We accomplish this by g a taxonomy of defense strategies by abstracting away impl...
David Brumley, Li-Hao Liu, Pongsin Poosankam, Dawn...
Most well-known Internet worms, such as Code Red, Slammer, and Blaster, infected vulnerable computers by scanning the entire Internet IPv4 space. In this paper, we present a new s...
Cliff Changchun Zou, Donald F. Towsley, Weibo Gong...
: Most Internet worms use random scanning. The distribution of vulnerable hosts on the Internet, however, is highly non-uniform over the IP-address space. This implies that random ...