— Epidemic worms has become a social problem owing to their potency in paralyzing the Internet, thus affecting our way of life. Recent researches have pointed out that epidemic w...
— 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,...
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...
It is widely believed that content-signature-based intrusion detection systems (IDSes) are easily evaded by polymorphic worms, which vary their payload on every infection attempt....
Abstract. We present two light-weight worm detection algorithms that offer significant advantages over fixed-threshold methods. The first algorithm, RBS (ratebased sequential hy...