— Due to the real time nature and buddy list presence information of Instant Messaging (IM) systems worms can spread over IM networks rapidly, causing severe damages, however, it...
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...
A computer worm is an autonomous malicious, selfreplicating and propagating piece of code that is able to spread fast in computer networks, exploiting the vulnerabilities it disco...
Pantelis Kammas, Thodoros Komninos, Yannis C. Stam...
— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
David M. Nicol, Steve Hanna, Frank Stratton, Willi...
We introduce models for cooperative mitigating response strategies to suppress large scale Internet worm attack. In our models, cooperating members communicate with others using a...