ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM 2004)
October 29, 2004
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

(Call for Papers)

• Invited talk: From AntiVirus to AntiWorm: A New Strategy for A New Threat Landscape (PowerPoint).
  Carey Nachenberg (Symantec Research Labs).

• A Study of Mass-mailing Worms.
  Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Jonathan M. McCune, and Chenxi Wang (Carnegie Mellon University).

• ACT: Attachment Chain Tracing Scheme for Email Virus Detection and Control.
  Jintao Xiong (Universidad del Turabo).

• Review and Analysis of Synthetic Diversity for Breaking Monocultures. Slides.
  James Just and Mark Cornwell (Global InfoTek).

• The Top Speed of Flash Worms.
  Stuart Staniford, David Moore, Vern Paxson and Nick Weaver (Nevis Networks, CAIDA/UCSD, ICSI).

• A Behavioral Approach to Worm Detection.
  Dan Ellis, Jack Aiken, Kira Attwood and Scott Tenaglia (MITRE).

• Invited talk: Some anti-worm efforts at Microsoft (PDF).
  Helen Wang (Microsoft Research).

• Toward Understanding Distributed Blackhole Placement.
  Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Z. Morley Mao, David Watson, Farnam Jahanian and Danny McPherson (University of Michigan, Arbor Networks).

• Preliminary Results Using Scale-Down to Explore Worm Dynamics.
  Nicholas Weaver, Ihab Hamadeh, George Kesidis, and Vern Paxson (ICSI and Pennsylvania State University).

• Invited talk: Minos: A Tool for Capturing and Analyzing Novel Worms for Unknown Vulnerabilities (PowerPoint).
  Jedidiah R. Crandall, Frederic T. Chong, Zhendong Su, S. Felix Wu (UC Davis).

• A Hybrid Quarantine Defense.
  Phillip Porras, Linda Briesemeister, Keith Skinner, Karl Levitt, Jeff Rowe and Allen Ting (SRI International, UC Davis).

• WORM vs. WORM: Preliminary Study of an Active Counter-Attack Mechanism.
  Frank Castaneda, Emre Can Sezer and Jun Xuy (IBM, North Carolina State University).