An assessment of the contemporary threat posed by network worm malware

摘要: The cost of a zero-day network worm outbreak has been estimated to be up US$2.6 billion. Additionally zeroday outbreaks have observed that spread at significant pace across the global Internet, with an infection level more than 90 percent vulnerable hosts within 10 minutes. threat posed by such fast-spreading malware is therefore significant, particularly given fact operator / administrator intervention not likely take effect typical epidemiological timescale infections. This paper presents classification wormable vulnerabilities, demonstrating method determine if vulnerability wormable, and survey into cause reduction in recent years, as well their viability future. It then goes on explore points out issues operating system security relation techniques used worms.