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2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Comunication Networks

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An Architecture for an Email Worm Prevention System

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359559,
        author={Mohamed Mahmoud  Taibah and Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf  Boutaba},
        title={An Architecture for an Email Worm Prevention System},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Comunication Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={SECURECOMM},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359559}
    }
    
  • Mohamed Mahmoud Taibah
    Ehab Al-Shaer
    Raouf Boutaba
    Year: 2007
    An Architecture for an Email Worm Prevention System
    SECURECOMM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359559
Mohamed Mahmoud Taibah1,*, Ehab Al-Shaer1,*, Raouf Boutaba2,*
  • 1: School of Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
  • 2: School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
*Contact email: mtaibah@cs.depaul.edu, ehab@cs.depaul.edu, rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca

Abstract

Email worms comprise the largest portion of Internet worms today. Previous research has shown that they are an effective vehicle to deliver malicious code to a large group of users. These worms spread rapidly using the email infrastructure, causing significant financial damage, network congestion, and privacy invasion. We present a dynamic architecture to proactively defend a protected domain against email worms. This architecture integrates concepts from the areas of Markov decision processes, Rabin fingerprinting and honeypots to inspect, detect, and quarantine unknown email worms in a timely manner. We also present the results of several simulation experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the architecture under different environment conditions

Published
2007-05-15
Publisher
IEEE
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359559
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