— 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...
Worms continue to be a leading security threat on the Internet. This paper analyzes several of the more widespread worms and develops a general life-cycle for them. The lifecycle,...
Florian P. Buchholz, Thomas E. Daniels, James P. E...
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...
Global-scale attacks like viruses and worms are increasing in frequency, severity and sophistication, making it critical to detect outbursts at routers/gateways instead of end hos...
This paper reports the results of our experimentation with modeling worm behavior on a large scale, fully adaptable network simulator. Our experiments focused on areas of worm scan...
Daniel A. Ray, Charles B. Ward, Bogdan Munteanu, J...