On instant messaging worms, analysis and countermeasures
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode. The problem of combating malicious self-propagating programs - worms - continues to hold pressing urgency due to the threat these pose to today's information infrastructure. This year's workshop follows up on the great interest engendered by last year's inaugural workshop. We again invited participation from researchers in the academic, commercial, and government communities, receiving 60% more papers than in 2003. From the 40 submissions, at the program committee meeting we selected nine papers, based on quality, focus, and the likelihood of stimulating productive discussion. The program committee also elicited three invited talks: from Carey Nachenberg of Symantec Research Labs ("From AntiVirus to AntiWorm: A New Strategy for a New Threat Landscape"), Helen Wang of Microsoft Research ("Anti-worm Efforts at Microsoft"), and Jedidiah R. Crandall of the University of California, Davis ("Minos: A Tool for Capturing and Analyzing Novel Worms for Unknown Vulnerablities"). We aim for the discussions stimulated by the presentations of these technical papers and invited talks to form the core of the workshop - a forum we anticipate will be exciting and energetic, but also sobering, as it is clear that a great deal of further work and research is needed to fully combat the threat.