In recent years, fast spreading worms, such as Code Red, Slammer, Blaster and Sasser, have become one of the major threats to the security of the Internet. In order to defend agai...
Cliff Changchun Zou, Donald F. Towsley, Weibo Gong
— 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...
— It is a commonly held belief that IPv6 provides greater security against random-scanning worms by virtue of a very sparse address space. We show that an intelligent worm can ex...
We introduce a novel worm containment strategy that integrates two complementary worm quarantine techniques. The two techniques are linked, with one strategy employing the other a...
: 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 ...