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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?
Abstract
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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Can we contain Internet worms

TL;DR: Preliminary results are presented showing that Vigilante can effectively contain fast spreading worms that exploit unknown vulnerabilities, and is proposed as a new host centric approach for automatic worm containment.
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Access for sale: a new class of worm

TL;DR: A new type of worm is introduced that enables a division of labor in the authors of self-reproducing malware, installing a back door on each infected system that opens only when presented a system-specific ticket generated by the worm's author.
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An empirical study of malware evolution

TL;DR: A novel graph pruning technique is developed to establish the inheritance relationships between different instances of malcode based on temporal information and key common phrases identified in the malcode descriptions.
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On the effectiveness of automatic patching

TL;DR: The use of filtering in combination with patching is evaluated and it is demonstrated that it can substantially improve worm containment and accommodate a variety of overlays by a novel abstraction of minimum broadcast curve.
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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.