A Systematic Approach for Cell-phone Worm Containment

摘要：

Cell phones are increasingly becoming attractive targets of various worms, which cause the leakage of user privacy, extra service charges and depletion of battery power. In this work, we study propagation of cell-phone worms, which exploit Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and/or Bluetooth for spreading. We then propose a systematic countermeasure against the worms. At the terminal level, we adopt Graphic Turing test and identity-based signature to block unauthorized messages from leaving compromised phones; at the network level, we propose a push-based automated patching scheme for cleansing compromised phones. Through experiments on phone devices and a wide variety of networks, we show that cellular systems taking advantage of our defense can achieve a low infection rate (e.g., less than 3％ within 30 hours) even under severe attacks.

关键词： Cell phone Graphic Turing test Automated patching

作者: Liang Xie Hui Song Trent Jaeger Sencun Zhu

作者单位: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第十七届国际万维网大会(the 17th International World Wide Web Conference)(WWW08)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-04-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）