An Ising Model Approach to Malware Epidemiology

[silky <michaelslists () gmail com>]

Thought funsec may be interested in this ...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4938 - An Ising Model Approach to Malware Epidemiology

Abstract: We introduce an Ising approach to study the spread of
malware. The Ising spins up and down are used to represent two
states--online and offline--of the nodes in the network. Malware is
allowed to propagate amongst online nodes and the rate of propagation
was found to increase with data traffic. For a more efficient network,
the spread of infection is much slower; while for a congested network,
infection spreads quickly.

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