The Blaster worm: Then and now

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 26-31

  Bailey, Michael ^a   Cooke, Evan ^a   Jahanian, Farnam ^a   Watson, David ^a   Nazario, Jose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Arbor Networks ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTER WORM; MICROSOFT WINDOWS SYSTEMS; RANDOM NUMBER; REBOOTING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 24344436426     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2005.106     Document Type: Review

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