Importance-scanning worm using vulnerable-host distribution

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1779-1784

  Chen, Zesheng ^a   Ji, Chuanyi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Importance scanning; Modeling; Security; Worm propagation

Indexed keywords

CODE RED; IMPORTANCE SCANNING; MODELING; SLAMMER WORMS; WORM PROPAGATION;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SCANNING; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 33846607334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1577955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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