— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
David M. Nicol, Steve Hanna, Frank Stratton, Willi...
Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in the number and sophistication of malware-related attacks and infections. Many detection techniques have been propos...
Davide Canali, Andrea Lanzi, Davide Balzarotti, Ch...
Malicious software in form of Internet worms, computer viruses, and Trojan horses poses a major threat to the security of networked systems. The diversity and amount of its variant...
Konrad Rieck, Thorsten Holz, Carsten Willems, Patr...
—This work presents a closed-form expression for characterizing the spread of static worm-scanning strategies through a mean-field approximation. Our model can both accurately c...
Large-scale attacks generated by fast-spreading or stealthy malicious mobile code, such as flash worms and e-mail viruses, demand new approaches to patch management and disinfecti...