Interent Malware and Information Security
Information Security Economics
Internet security can be viewed as an economic problem. In particular,
a clean and sanitary Internet relies on cooperation among individuals
and organizations to close security holes and police malicious activity.
But security is not free, and the costs of insecurity are often paid
by someone else. Our discussion draws on materials from the following sources:
Malware: Spyware and Botnets
To understand the nature of the threats, we discuss material
from two papers:
In class I showed some animations of malware epidemics from
CAIDA, and also some slides from
Geoff Voelker et. al.'s original work on tools to study Internet malware activity.
I also used slides from the authors of the papers above, and some slides
from the work by Dina Kitabi and Srikanth Kandula at MIT: they have a
page on botnets with some related popular articles.