Cyber Defence; Malware; Network Worm; Zero-Day Worm; Simulation; Modelling

Tidy, Luc, Shahzad, Khurram, Ahmad, Muhammad Aminu and Woodhead, Steve (2014) An assessment of the contemporary threat posed by network worm malware. In: ICSNC 2014: The Ninth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications. IARIA, Nice, France, pp. 92-98. ISBN 9781612083681 ISSN 2163-9027

Malware, Countermeasure, Network worm, Slammer

Shahzad, Khurram and Woodhead, Stephen (2015) Empirical analysis of an improved countermeasure against computer network worms. In: 6th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Denton, USA.

Worms; Slammer; Witty, Susceptible-Infected (SI); Modeling; Grippers; Logic gates; Limiting; Analytical models; Yttrium; Frequency locked loops; Network Security; Malware

Shahzad, Khurram and Woodhead, Steve (2016) Epidemiological modeling of network worm infections and countermeasures. In: 2015 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS). IEEE, pp. 628-633. ISBN 978-1-5090-1949-6 ISSN 978-1-5090-1950-2 (Online) (doi:10.1109/IntelCIS.2015.7397288)

Worms; Witty; malware; rate limiting; countermeasure

Shahzad, Khurram and Woodhead, Stephen (2015) Empirical analysis of rate limiting + leap ahead (RL+LA) countermeasure against Witty worm. In: 13th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing. IEEE, Liverpool, UK, pp. 2055-2061. ISBN 9781509001545 (doi:10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.266)

computer networks; malware; viruses; computer worm; worm detection;

Shahzad, Khurram (2015) An investigation of mechanisms to mitigate zero-day computer worms within computer networks. PhD thesis, University of Greenwich.

cyber, hit-list, scanning, witty, worm

Shahzad, Khurram and Woodhead, Steve (2014) A Pseudo-Worm Daemon (PWD) for empirical analysis of zero-day network worms and countermeasure testing. In: Fifth International Conference on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781479926954 (doi:10.1109/ICCCNT.2014.6963124)

malware, countermeasure, network worm, rate limiting

Shahzad, Khurram and Woodhead, Steve (2014) Towards automated distributed containment of zero-day network worms. In: Fifth International Conference on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT). IEEE, pp. 1-7. ISBN 978-1-4799-2695-4 (doi:10.1109/ICCCNT.2014.6963119)

worms, malware, slammer, testbed, virtualization, VMware

Shahzad, Khurram, Woodhead, Steve and Bakalis, Panos (2013) A virtualised network testbed for zero-day worm analysis and countermeasure testing. In: Advances in Security of Information and Communication Networks: First International Conference, SecNet 2013, Cairo, Egypt, September 3-5, 2013. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science (381). Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 54-64. ISBN 978-3642405976 ISSN 1865-0929 (Print), 1865-0937 (Online) (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40597-6_5)