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19.4. Recommended Reading and Web Sites

For a thorough understanding of viruses, the book to read is [SZOR05]. Another excellent treatment is [HARL01]. Good overview articles on viruses and worms are [CASS01], [FORR97], [KEPH97], and [NACH97]. [MEIN01] provides a good treatment of the Code Red worm.

[PATR04] is a worthwhile survey of DDoS attacks. [MIRK04] is a thorough description of the variety of DDoS attacks and countermeasures. [CHAN02] is a good examination of DDoS defense strategies.

CASS01 Cass, S. "Anatomy of Malice." IEEE Spectrum, November 2001.

CHAN02 Chang, R. "Defending Against Flooding-Based Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks: A Tutorial." IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2002.

FORR97 Forrest, S.; Hofmeyr, S.; and Somayaji, A. "Computer Immunology." Communications of the ACM, October 1997.

HARL01 Harley, D.; Slade, R.; and Gattiker, U. Viruses Revealed. New York: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

KEPH97 Kephart, J.; Sorkin, G.; Chess, D.; and White, S. "Fighting Computer Viruses." Scientific American, November 1997.

MEIN01 Meinel, C. "Code Red for the Web." Scientific American, October 2001.

MIRK04 Mirkovic, J., and Relher, P. "A Taxonomy of DDoS Attack and DDoS Defense Mechanisms." ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, April 2004.

NACH97 Nachenberg, C. "Computer Virus-Antivirus Coevolution." Communications of the ACM, January 1997.

PATR04 Patrikakis, C.; Masikos, M.; and Zouraraki, O. "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks." The Internet Protocol Journal, December 2004.

SZOR05 Szor, P., The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2005.

Recommended Web Sites

• AntiVirus Online: IBM's site on virus information

• Vmyths: Dedicated to exposing virus hoaxes and dispelling misconceptions about real viruses

• DDoS Attacks/Tools: Extensive list of links and documents