Abstract. Autonomous spreading malware in the form of bots or worms is a constant threat in today’s Internet. In the form of botnets, networks of compromised machines that can be...
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 ...
— 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...
Content storage in a distributed collaborative environment uses redundancy for better resilience and thus provides good availability and durability. In a peer-to-peer environment,...
Getting new security features and protocols to be widely adopted and deployed in the Internet has been a continuing challenge. There are several reasons for this, in particular ec...