The ecology of malware

Proceedings New Security Paradigms Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 99-106

  Crandall, Jedidiah R ^a   Ensafi, Roya ^a   Forrest, Stephanie ^a   Ladau, Joshua ^b   Shebaro, Bilal ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Botnets; Malware analysis; Malware ecology; Viruses; Worms

Indexed keywords

BOTNETS; CARRYING CAPACITY; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; MALICIOUS SOFTWARE; MALWARE ECOLOGY; MALWARES; POPULATION REGULATION; POSITION PAPERS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEXATION; ECOLOGY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; VIRUSES;

COMPUTER WORMS;

EID: 77950564204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1595676.1595692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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