In its most general form, an attack signature is a program that can correctly determine if an input network packet sequence can successfully attack a protected network application...
Large-scale attacks, such as those launched by worms and zombie farms, pose a serious threat to our network-centric society. Existing approaches such as software patches are simpl...
Modern worms can spread so quickly that any countermeasure based on human reaction might not be fast enough. Recent research has focused on devising algorithms to automatically pr...
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Andrea Lanzi, Luca Mayer, Matti...
—It is crucial to detect zero-day polymorphic worms and to generate signatures at the edge network gateways or honeynets so that we can prevent the worms from propagating at thei...
Most of today’s computers are connected to the Internet or at least to a local network, exposing system vulnerabilities to the potential attackers. One of the attackers’ goals...
Milena Milenkovic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil Jov...