— 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...
— Localized scanning is a simple technique used by attackers to search for vulnerable hosts. Localized scanning trades off between the local and the global search of vulnerable h...
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, ...
Network worms are a clear and growing threat to the security of today's Internet-connected hosts and networks. The combination of the Internet's unrestricted connectivit...
Sumeet Singh, Cristian Estan, George Varghese, Ste...
Vulnerabilities that allow worms to hijack the control flow of each host that they spread to are typically discovered months before the worm outbreak, but are also typically disc...
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Zhendong Su, Shyhtsun Felix ...