A First Look at Peer-to-Peer Worms: Threats and Defenses | Zendy

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A First Look at Peer-to-Peer Worms: Threats and Defenses

Author(s) -

Lidong Zhou,

Lintao Zhang,

Frank McSherry,

Nicole Immorlica,

Manuel Costa,

Steve Chien

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

lecture notes in computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249

H-Index - 400

eISSN - 1611-3349

pISSN - 0302-9743

ISBN - 3-540-29068-0

DOI - 10.1007/11558989_3

Subject(s) - computer science , exploit , resilience (materials science) , overlay network , computer security , peer to peer , computer network , distributed computing , world wide web , the internet , physics , thermodynamics

Peer-to-peer (P2P) worms exploit common vulnerabilities in member hosts of a P2P network and spread topologically in the P2P network, a potentially more effective strategy than random scanning for locating victims. This paper describes the danger posed by P2P worms and initiates the study of possible mitigation mechanisms. In particular, the paper explores the feasibility of a self-defense infrastructure inside a P2P network, outlines the challenges, evaluates how well this defense mechanism contains P2P worms, and reveals correlations between containment and the overlay topology of a P2P network. Our experiments suggest a number of design directions to improve the resilience of P2P networks to worm attacks.

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