Malicious software—so called malware—poses a major threat to the security of computer systems. The amount and diversity of its variants render classic security defenses ineffe...
Konrad Rieck, Philipp Trinius, Carsten Willems, Th...
— It has been clear since 1988 that self-propagating code can quickly spread across a network by exploiting homogeneous security vulnerabilities. However, the last few years have...
David Moore, Colleen Shannon, Geoffrey M. Voelker,...
This study presents an analysis of the impact of mitigation on computer worm propagation in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETS). According to the recent DARPA BAA Defense Against Cybe...
Robert G. Cole, Nam Phamdo, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Andr...
One class of worm defense techniques that received attention of late is to “rate limit” outbound traffic to contain fast spreading worms. Several proposals of rate limiting t...
Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Ahren Studer, Chenxi W...
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 ...