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Inside the Slammer worm

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The Slammer worm spread so quickly that human response was ineffective, and why was it so effective and what new challenges do this new breed of worm pose?
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The Slammer worm spread so quickly that human response was ineffective. In January 2003, it packed a benign payload, but its disruptive capacity was surprising. Why was it so effective and what new challenges do this new breed of worm pose?.

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Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know

TL;DR: Using web servers and web applications as running examples throughout, this comprehensive guide helps you manage risk due to insecure code and build trust with users by showing how to write code to prevent, detect, and contain attacks.
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On the race of worms, alerts, and patches

TL;DR: An analytical framework is provided to quantify the speed of patch or alert dissemination required for worm containment and provides quantitative estimates that can guide system designers in dimensioning automatic patching systems.
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Preliminary results using scale-down to explore worm dynamics

TL;DR: This work develops a series of abstract models approximating Slammer's Internet propagation and demonstrates that such modeling appears to require incorporating both heterogeneous clustering of infectibles and heterogeneous access-link bandwidths connecting those clusters to the Internet core.
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An Automated Signature-Based Approach against Polymorphic Internet Worms

TL;DR: This paper proposes a new worm signature, called the position-aware distribution signature (PADS), which fills the gap between traditional signatures and anomaly-based intrusion detection systems and performs extensive experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of PADS in separating new worm variants from normal background traffic.
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The Dynamics of Internet Traffic: Self-Similarity, Self-Organization, and Complex Phenomena

TL;DR: This paper is a review of the complex dynamics of Internet traffic from both the network engineering and physics perspectives showing the strengths and weaknesses as well as insights of both.
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Inferring internet denial-of-service activity

TL;DR: This article presents a new technique, called “backscatter analysis,” that provides a conservative estimate of worldwide denial-of-service activity, and believes it is the first to provide quantitative estimates of Internet-wide denial- of- service activity.
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How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time

TL;DR: This work develops and evaluates several new, highly virulent possible techniques: hit-list scanning, permutation scanning, self-coordinating scanning, and use of Internet-sized hit-lists (which creates a flash worm).
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Code-Red: a case study on the spread and victims of an internet worm

TL;DR: The experience of the Code-Red worm demonstrates that wide-spread vulnerabilities in Internet hosts can be exploited quickly and dramatically, and that techniques other than host patching are required to mitigate Internet worms.
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Internet quarantine: requirements for containing self-propagating code

TL;DR: The design space of worm containment systems is described using three key parameters - reaction time, containment strategy and deployment scenario - and the lower bounds that any such system must exceed to be useful today are demonstrated.
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Inferring Internet denial-of-service activity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new technique, called backscatter analysis, that provides a conservative estimate of worldwide denial-of-service activity, and quantitatively assess the number, duration and focus of attacks, and qualitatively characterize their behavior.