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worm: a standalone construct

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worm1 CONSTRUCTComputer wormSHOCH & HUPP · 1982

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Computer security

A program that copies itself across a network

In computing, a worm is a self-contained program that replicates and spreads from machine to machine across a network, without needing to attach itself to a host program the way a virus does. Shoch and Hupp described the early Xerox PARC "worm" programs as benign distributed computations that crawled across idle workstations, and the name was later inherited by the self-propagating malware that exploits network services to copy itself. The referent is an autonomous, network-spreading piece of software defined by self-replication and propagation, not a burrowing animal or a machine element.[1]

Unit
The program and its rate and reach of self-replication across hosts
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by propagation rate, the number of infected hosts, and the network footprint of its spread

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References

  1. Shoch, J. F., & Hupp, J. A. (1982). The “worm” programs: Early experience with a distributed computation. Communications of the ACM, 25(3), 172–180. https://doi.org/10.1145/358453.358455

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