— Active worms spread in an automated fashion and can flood the Internet in a very short time. Modeling the spread of active worms can help us understand how active worms spread...
Mass-mailing worms have made a significant impact on the Internet. These worms consume valuable network resources and can also be used as a vehicle for DDoS attacks. In this paper...
Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Jonathan M. McCune, Ch...
Abstract. Network worms are malicious programs that spread automatically across networks by exploiting vulnerabilities that affect a large number of hosts. Because of the speed at...
Worms are arguably the most serious security threat facing the Internet. Seeking a detection technique that is both sufficiently efficient and accurate to enable automatic conta...
David Whyte, Evangelos Kranakis, Paul C. van Oorsc...
Instant messaging (IM) systems have gained a lot of popularity in recent years. The increasing number of IM users has lured malware authors to develop more worms and viruses that ...