— It has been clear since 1988 that self-propagating code can quickly spread across a network by exploiting homogeneous security vulnerabilities. However, the last few years have...
David Moore, Colleen Shannon, Geoffrey M. Voelker,...
— Active worms spread in an automated fashion and can flood the Internet in a very short time. Modeling the spread of active worms can help us understand how active worms spread...
Due to the fast spreading nature and great damage of Internet worms, it is necessary to implement automatic mitigation, such as dynamic quarantine, on computer networks. Enlighten...
Cliff Changchun Zou, Weibo Gong, Donald F. Towsley
There is a well-defined propagation model, named the random constant spread (RCS) model, which explains worms that spread their clones with a random scanning strategy. This model ...
Kwangsun Ko, Hyun-Su Jang, Byuong Woon Park, Young...
Fast Internet worms are a relatively new threat to Internet infrastructure and hosts. We discuss motivation and possibilities to study the behaviour of such worms and degrees of f...