Modeling the spread of internet worms via persistently unpatched hosts

Authors:
Warren H. Debany, Jr.
Affiliations:
Air Force Research Laboratory, IFG, Rome, NY
Venue:
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper considers the effects of Internet worms on persistently unpatched hosts and hosts for which vulnerabilities are refreshed. Equilibrium conditions are obtained for which an Internet worm will self-propagate indefinitely.