Automatic Defense Against Zero-day Polymorphic Worms in Communication Networks

Mohssen Mohammed received his B.Sc. (Honors) degree in Computer Science from Computer Man College for Computer Studies (Future University), Khartoum - Sudan in 2003. In 2006, received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences - University of Khartoum, Sudan. In 2012 received Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cape Town University, South Africa. He published several papers at top international conferences such as GLOBECOM and MILCOM. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member in numerous international conferences like ICSEA 2010, ICNS 2011. He got University of Cape Town prize for International Scholarship for Academic Merit (Years 2007, 2008, and 2009). From 2005 to 2012 he has been working as a permanent academic staff at the University of Juba, South of Sudan. Now he is working as Assistant Professor in the College of Computer Science & Information Technology, Bahri University, Khartoum Sudan. His research interest includes Network Security, especially Intrusion detection and prevention systems, Honeypots, Firewalls, and Malware Detection Methods.Al-Sakib Khan Pathan received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2009 from Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He received B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh in 2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Computer Science department in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia. Till June 2010, he served as an Assistant Professor at Computer Science and Engineering department in BRAC University, Bangladesh. Prior to holding this position, he worked as a Researcher at Networking Lab, Kyung Hee University, South Korea till August 2009. His research interest includes wireless sensor networks, network security, and e-services technologies. He is a recipient of several awards/best paper awards and has several publications in