A preliminary investigation of worm infections in a bluetooth environment

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode, WORM'06. Co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 9-16

  Su, Jing ^a   Miklas, Andrew G ^a   Po, Kenneth ^a   Akhavan, Ali ^a   Saroiu, Stefan ^a   De Lara, Eyal ^a   Goel, Ashvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Malware; Worms

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH PROTOCOL DESIGN; BLUETOOTH SECURITY; WORM INFECTIONS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER WORMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 34547218865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1179542.1179545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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