This talk will start the series of presentations about malicious use
of network.

Abhishek and Vijay will lead the discussion:
"WORMS: attacks, defenses and models."

Abhishek will start with a taxonomy of network worms, going thru the
details of some of the most successful malcodes, and giving insights
of what makes these worms a major security concern.

From that point, Vijay will present what are the state-of-the-art
defenses against worms, and models to predict their spread and 
destructive power.

This tutorial-like presentation is based on the non-exhaustive list of
papers bellow:

- N. Weaver, V. Paxson, S. Staniford and R. Cunningham,
"A Taxonomy of Computer Worms", Proc. ACM CCS Workshop on Rapid Malcode,
October 2003.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/papers/taxonomy.pdf

- N. Weaver, S. Staniford and V. Paxson,
"Very Fast Containment of Scanning Worms", USENIX Security Symposium 2004.
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/containment/

- Stuart Staniford, Vern Paxson and Nicholas Weaver
"How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time", in the Proceedings of the
11th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '02)
http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/

- Cliff Changchun Zou, Weibo Gong, Don Towsley 
"Worm Propagation Modeling and Analysis under Dynamic Quarantine Defense",
in WORM 2003
http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~gong/papers/dynamicQuarantine.pdf

- Michael Liljenstam, Yougu Yuan, BJ Premore and David Nicol
"A Mixed Abstraction Level Simulation Model of Large Scale Internet Worm
Infestation"
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~nicol/papers-cv/mascots2002.pdf

- Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, "A Worst-Case Worm", Proceedings of the 
third annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS04), 2004
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/weis2004/weaver.pdf

Usefull links:
- http://www.icir.org/vern/papers.html
- http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/savage/