Title :
Collaborative Internet worm containment
Author :
Cai, Min ; Hwang, Kai ; Kwok, Yu-Kwong ; Song, ShanShan ; Chen, Yu
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Large-scale worm outbreaks that lead to distributed denial-of-service attacks pose a major threat to Internet infrastructure security. Fast worm containment is crucial for minimizing damage and preventing flooding attacks against network hosts.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network management; invasive software; telecommunication security; Internet worm; collaborative worm containment; distributed denial-of-service attacks; flooding attacks; infrastructure security; large-scale worm outbreaks; network hosts; Authentication; Collaboration; Communication system security; Control systems; Face detection; Internet; Intrusion detection; Large-scale systems; Payloads; Routing; DDoS attacks; DHT; Internet worms; anomaly detection; distributed denial-of-service; distributed hash tables; network security; overlay networks; signature generation;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2005.63
