Securing passwords against dictionary attacks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium
Throttling Viruses: Restricting propagation to defeat malicious mobile code
ACSAC '02 Proceedings of the 18th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
Tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2003
Recent worms: a survey and trends
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2004
Very fast containment of scanning worms
SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
Recognizing objects in adversarial clutter: breaking a visual captcha
CVPR'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE computer society conference on Computer vision and pattern recognition
Simulating non-scanning worms on peer-to-peer networks
InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
Proactive security for mobile messaging networks
WiSe '06 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Wireless security
Analyzing network and content characteristics of spim using honeypots
SRUTI'07 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX workshop on Steps to reducing unwanted traffic on the internet
Catching instant messaging worms with change-point detection techniques
LEET'08 Proceedings of the 1st Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
Peer-to-peer system-based active worm attacks: Modeling, analysis and defense
Computer Communications
On capturing malware dynamics in mobile power-law networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security and privacy in communication netowrks
Measurement and classification of humans and bots in internet chat
SS'08 Proceedings of the 17th conference on Security symposium
Defending against the propagation of active worms
The Journal of Supercomputing
Malware propagation in online social networks: nature, dynamics, and defense implications
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
On detecting active worms with varying scan rate
Computer Communications
A worm propagation model based on people's email acquaintance profiles
WINE'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Internet and Network Economics
Secure instant messaging in enterprise-like networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Humans and bots in internet chat: measurement, analysis, and automated classification
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A protocol for secure public instant messaging
FC'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
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We provide a collection of minor results on the area of Instant Messaging (IM) worms, which has received relatively little attention in the formal literature. We review selected IM worms and summarize their main characteristics, motivating a brief overview of the network formed by IM contact lists, and a discussion of theoretical consequences of worms in such networks. Existing methods to restrict an IM worm epidemic are analyzed in terms of usability and effectiveness, leading to the suggestion of two minor variations to limit IM worm propagation. We believe these variations are more user-friendly and effective than existing published methods. We also provide brief results of a three and a half year user study of IM text messaging and file transfer frequency in a moderate-size public IM network -- the largest such study to date -- which is of independent interest, but also supports in part the preceding claim regarding user-friendliness.