The Spatial-Temporal Perspective: The Study of the Propagation of Modern Social Worms.

Due to the critical security threats imposed by social worms, such as Twitter and Facebook, modeling and simulation study of the propagation dynamics of social worms is essential to predict their potential for damage and to understand the propagation characteristics. Modern social worms exhibit one new feature, reinfection-notification. It indicates that malicious messages are sent by neighbors wh...