TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of human factors on email worm propagation
AU - Sun, Xin
AU - Liu, Yanheng
AU - Wang, Jian
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - One of the most prevalent security problems in network is the rampant propagation of email worms. Unlike active worms, the email worm has to be activated by user action in order to spread further. This paper deals with modeling email worm propagation by analyzing and combining human factors. Impact of human factors on email worm propagation is investigated and discussed. Results of email worm propagation under a practical simulation environment show that the presented model well describes the email worm behavior. Conclusions are also drawn that infection probability decreases during evolution of worm infection due to the security consciousness rising, and highly connected nodes are more susceptible.
AB - One of the most prevalent security problems in network is the rampant propagation of email worms. Unlike active worms, the email worm has to be activated by user action in order to spread further. This paper deals with modeling email worm propagation by analyzing and combining human factors. Impact of human factors on email worm propagation is investigated and discussed. Results of email worm propagation under a practical simulation environment show that the presented model well describes the email worm behavior. Conclusions are also drawn that infection probability decreases during evolution of worm infection due to the security consciousness rising, and highly connected nodes are more susceptible.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70450160674
U2 - 10.1109/SWS.2009.5271794
DO - 10.1109/SWS.2009.5271794
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450160674
SN - 9781424441563
T3 - Proceedings - 2009 1st IEEE Symposium on Web Society, SWS 2009
SP - 102
EP - 107
BT - Proceedings - 2009 1st IEEE Symposium on Web Society, SWS 2009
T2 - 2009 1st IEEE Symposium on Web Society, SWS 2009
Y2 - 23 August 2009 through 24 August 2009
ER -