A key emerging and popular communication paradigm, primarily employed for information dissemination, is peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. In this paper, we model the spread of malwar...
Rapidly-spreading malicious software is an important threat on today’s computer networks. Most solutions that have been proposed to counter this threat are based on our ability ...
Conficker [26] is the most recent widespread, well-known worm/bot. According to several reports [16, 28], it has infected about 7 million to 15 million hosts and the victims are s...
Abstract— Recent outbreaks of virus and worm attacks targeted at cell phones have have bought to the forefront the seriousness of the security threat to this increasingly popular...
We study how the spread of computer viruses, worms, and other self-replicating malware is affected by the logical topology of the network over which they propagate. We consider a...
Moez Draief, Ayalvadi J. Ganesh, Laurent Massouli&...