As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Attacks over the Internet are becoming more and more complex and sophisticated. How to
detect security threats and measure the security of the Internet arises a significant research …

Internet-wide network scanning has numerous security applications, including exposing new
vulnerabilities and tracking the adoption of defensive mechanisms, but probing the entire …

Monitoring any portion of the Internet address space reveals incessant activity. This holds
even when monitoring traffic sent to unused addresses, which we term" background …

The importance of using real-world data to enable and validate dynamic network research
for the purposes of cyber security cannot be understated. Unfortunately, the use of real-world …

Passive Internet monitoring is a powerful tool for measuring and characterizing interesting
network activity like worms or distributed denial of service attacks. By employing statistical …

This work was motivated by a discussion that two of the coauthors (computer science
professors) had with the other coauthor (a law professor and a former computer crime Trial …

The Internet's evolution over the past 30 years (1971-2001), has been accompanied by the
development of various network applications. These applications range from early text …

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it. Network Security
Assessment provides you with the tricks and tools professional security consultants use to …

Scanning of hosts on the Internet to identify vulnerable devices and services is a key
component in many of today's cyberattacks. Tracking this scanning activity, in turn, provides …