—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...
Worm detection systems have traditionally used global strategies and focused on scan rates. The noise associated with this approach requires statistical techniques and large data s...
David Dagon, Xinzhou Qin, Guofei Gu, Wenke Lee, Ju...
Active worms continue to pose major threats to the security of today's Internet. This is due to the ability of active worms to automatically propagate themselves and compromi...
We study the effectiveness of automatic patching and quantify the speed of patch or alert dissemination required for worm containment. We focus on random scanning as this is repres...
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...