Topological worms, such as those that propagate by following links in an overlay network, have the potential to spread faster than traditional random scanning worms because they h...
Filipe Freitas, Edgar Marques, Rodrigo Rodrigues, ...
We study the effectiveness of automatic patching and quantify the speed of patch or alert dissemination required for worm containment. We focus on random scanning as this is repres...
Abstract— Peer-to-peer (P2P) worms exploit common vulnerabilities in member hosts of a P2P network and spread topologically in the P2P network, a potentially more effective strat...
Lidong Zhou, Lintao Zhang, Frank McSherry, Nicole ...