An architecture for an email worm prevention system

2006 Securecomm and Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Taibah, Mohamed Mahmoud ^a   Al Shaer, Ehab ^a   Boutaba, Raouf ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER WORMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; WEIGHT CONTROL;

DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE; EMAIL WORMS; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; HONEYPOTS; INTERNET WORMS; MALICIOUS CODE; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; NETWORK CONGESTIONS; PRIVACY INVASIONS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 50049084766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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