Modeling and analysis on the propagation dynamics of modern email malware

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 361-374

  Wen, Sheng ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Xiang, Yang ^a   Zhou, Wanlei ^a   Jia, Weijia ^b   C Zou, Cliff ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

email malware; Network security; propagation modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; NETWORK SECURITY; VIRTUAL ADDRESSES;

COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; MALWARE BEHAVIORS; MALWARE PROPAGATION; MODEL AND ANALYSIS; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; PROPAGATION MODELING; SECURITY THREATS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

MALWARE;

EID: 84904668804     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2013.49     Document Type: Article

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