Computer Worms, Detection and Defense

• Main Authors: COLE, R., CHU, Chao-Hsien
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/233
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Since the first widespread Internet worm incident in 1988, computer worms have become a major Internet threat and a subject of increasing academic research. This worm, known as the Morris Worm, was written by Cornell University student Robert Morris. Morris’s worm infected Sun Microsystems Sun 3 and...