Self-propagating codes, called worms, such as Code Red, Nimda, and Slammer, have drawn significant attention due to their enormous adverse impact on the Internet. There is a grea...
Abstract— Encounter-based network is a frequentlydisconnected wireless ad-hoc network requiring immediate neighbors to store and forward aggregated data for information dissemina...
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...
— 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,...
As next-generation computer worms may spread within minutes to millions of hosts, protection via human intervention is no longer an option. We discuss the implementation of SweetB...