[forwarded in consideration that some NANOGers might have some interesting perspectives on worms that would otherwised be missed] The Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM) Workshop held in association with the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 27th, 2003 Washington D.C. Call for Papers In the last several years, Internet-wide infectious epidemics have emerged as one of the leading threats to information security and service availability. The vehicle for these outbreaks, malicious codes called "worms", leverage the combination of software monocultures and the uncontrolled Internet communication model to quickly compromise large numbers of hosts. Current operational practices have not been able to manage these threats effectively and the research community is only now beginning to address this area. The goal of this workshop is to bring together ideas, understanding and experience bearing on the worm problem from a wide range of communities including academia, industry and the government. We are soliciting papers from researchers and practitioners on subjects including, but not limited to: Modeling and analysis of propagation dynamics Automatic detection, characterization, and prediction Analysis of worm construction, current & future Propagation strategies (fast & obvious vs slow and stealthy) Reactive countermeasures Proactive defenses Threat assessment Forensic methods of attribution Significant operational experiences Important Dates Paper submissions due: July 1st, 2003 Acceptance notification: August 14th Camera ready copy for accepted papers: August 29th Workshop: October 27th Submissions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 10 conference-style pages (double column) using a numbered citation style, 11 point font, and reasonable margins on letter-sized paper. The first page of each paper should include the title, abstract, authors and contact information. Further submission instructions will be posted at http://pisa.ucsd.edu/worm03/ in a timely matter. Conference Organization General Chair: Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense Publicity Chair: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Lab Program Committee Chair: Stefan Savage, UC San Diego Program Committee Members: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Lab Anup Ghosh, DARPA David Moore, CAIDA/UC San Diego Carey Nachenberg, Symantec Vern Paxson, ICIR/LBL Phil Porras, SRI Jeff Rowe, UC Davis Mike Skroch, Sandia Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense Don Towsley, UMass Amherst