Why mobile-to-mobile wireless malware won’t cause a storm

LEET 2011 - 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, spyware, Worms, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Husted, Nathaniel ^a   Myers, Steven ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNET; COMPUTER VIRUSES; SMARTPHONES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BLUETOOTH RADIO; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELING; HERD IMMUNITIES; MOBILE TO MOBILES; SHORT-RANGE RADIO; SPREADING SPEED; WIRELESS PROPAGATION; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 85084096782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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