Modern society is highly dependent on the smooth and safe flow of information over communication and computer networks. Computer viruses and worms pose serious threats to the soci...
Mass-mailing worms have made a significant impact on the Internet. These worms consume valuable network resources and can also be used as a vehicle for DDoS attacks. In this paper...
Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Jonathan M. McCune, Ch...
A major challenge when attempting to analyze and model large-scale Internet phenomena such as the dynamics of global worm propagation is finding ate abstractions that allow us to ...
Nicholas Weaver, Ihab Hamadeh, George Kesidis, Ver...
Flash worms follow a precomputed spread tree using prior knowledge of all systems vulnerable to the worm's exploit. In previous work we suggested that a flash worm could satu...
Stuart Staniford, David Moore, Vern Paxson, Nichol...
We study the strengths, weaknesses, and potential synergies of two complementary worm quarantine defense strategies under various worm attack profiles. We observe their abilities ...
Phillip A. Porras, Linda Briesemeister, Keith Skin...
The monitoring of unused Internet address space has been shown to be an effective method for characterizing Internet threats including Internet worms and DDOS attacks. Because the...
Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, D...
Self-propagating computer worms have been terrorizing the Internet for the last several years. With the increasing density, inter-connectivity and bandwidth of the Internet combin...