In recent years, the threats and damages caused by active worms have become more and more serious. In order to reduce the loss caused by fastspreading active worms, an effective de...
We propose a novel near real-time method for early detection of worm outbreaks in high-speed Internet backbones. Our method attributes several behavioural properties to individual...
Worm detection systems have traditionally focused on global strategies. In the absence of a global worm detection system, we examine the effectiveness of local worm detection and ...
Guofei Gu, Monirul I. Sharif, Xinzhou Qin, David D...
After the Code Red incident in 2001 and the SQL Slammer in January 2003, it is clear that a simple self-propagating worm can quickly spread across the Internet, infects most vulne...
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...