Abstract— With the capability of infecting hundreds of thousands of hosts, worms represent a major threat to the Internet. The defense against Internet worms is largely an open p...
Worms are self-replicating malicious programs that represent a major security threat for the Internet, as they can infect and damage a large number of vulnerable hosts at timescal...
The fast spreading worm is becoming one of the most serious threats to today’s networked information systems. A fast spreading worm could infect hundreds of thousands of hosts w...
Songqing Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Lei Liu, Xinwen Zhang
— Due to the real time nature and buddy list presence information of Instant Messaging (IM) systems worms can spread over IM networks rapidly, causing severe damages, however, it...
The vulnerabilities which plague computers cause endless grief to users. Slammer compromised millions of hosts in minutes; a hit-list worm would take under a second. Recently prop...
Joseph Tucek, James Newsome, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huan...