Understanding Mutable Internet Pathogens, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parasitic Behavior

摘要: Worms are becoming increasingly hostile. The exponential growth of infection rates allows small outbreaks to have worldwide consequences within minutes. Moreover, the collateral damage caused by infections can cripple entire Internet. While harmful, such behaviors historically been short-lived. We assert future holds much more caustic malware. Attacks based on mutation and covert propagation likely be ultimately damaging long lasting. This assertion is supported observations natural systems, where similarly behaving parasites represent far most successful class living creatures. talk considers a parasite for Internet, providing biological metaphors its behavior demonstrating structure pathogens. Through simulation, we show that even with low rates, mutating pathogen will eventually infect an community. posit inevitability consider ways they mitigated.