Malware in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks Export

@inproceedings{stone:malware, abstract = {Malicious software (malware) is one of the largest threats facing the Internet today. In recent years, malware has proliferated into wireless LANs as these networks have grown in popularity and prevalence. Yet the actual effects of malware-related network traffic in open wireless networks has never been examined. In this paper, we provide the first study to quantify the characteristics of malware on wireless LANs. We use data collected from the large wireless LAN deployment at the 67th IETF meeting in San Diego, California as a case study. The measurements in this paper demonstrate that even a single infected host can have a dramatic impact on the performance of a wireless network.}, author = {Stone-Gross, Brett and Wilson, Christo and Almeroth, Kevin and Belding, Elizabeth and Zheng, Heather and Papagiannaki, Konstantina}, booktitle = {Proceedings of PAM 2008}, citeulike-article-id = {5165501}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79232-1_23}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m6626013j3826n7n}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding/txt/pam08_stonegross.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-79232-1_23}, journal = {Passive and Active Network Measurement}, keywords = {80211, malware, security}, location = {Cleveland, OH, USA}, month = {April}, pages = {222--231}, posted-at = {2009-07-15 22:56:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Malware in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79232-1_23}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - stone:malware L3 - citeulike-article-id:5165501 N2 - Malicious software (malware) is one of the largest threats facing the Internet today. In recent years, malware has proliferated into wireless LANs as these networks have grown in popularity and prevalence. Yet the actual effects of malware-related network traffic in open wireless networks has never been examined. In this paper, we provide the first study to quantify the characteristics of malware on wireless LANs. We use data collected from the large wireless LAN deployment at the 67th IETF meeting in San Diego, California as a case study. The measurements in this paper demonstrate that even a single infected host can have a dramatic impact on the performance of a wireless network. CY - Cleveland, OH, USA JF - Passive and Active Network Measurement EP - 231 TI - Malware in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks T2 - Proceedings of PAM 2008 SP - 222 KW - 80211 KW - malware KW - security AU - Stone-Gross, Brett AU - Wilson, Christo AU - Almeroth, Kevin AU - Belding, Elizabeth AU - Zheng, Heather AU - Papagiannaki, Konstantina PY - 2008/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79232-1_23 ER -