A comprehensive survey of recent internet measurement techniques for cyber security

MS Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

The state of affairs in BGP security: A survey of attacks and defenses

A Mitseva, A Panchenko, T Engel - Computer Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto standard interdomain routing
protocol. Despite its critical role on the Internet, it does not provide any security guarantees …

BGPStream: a software framework for live and historical BGP data analysis

C Orsini, A King, D Giordano, V Giotsas… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present BGPStream, an open-source software framework for the analysis of both
historical and real-time Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) measurement data. Although BGP is …

RPKI is coming of age: A longitudinal study of RPKI deployment and invalid route origins

T Chung, E Aben, T Bruijnzeels… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Despite its critical role in Internet connectivity, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains
highly vulnerable to attacks such as prefix hijacking, where an Autonomous System (AS) …

The growing complexity of content delivery networks: Challenges and implications for the Internet ecosystem

V Stocker, G Smaragdakis, W Lehr, S Bauer - Telecommunications Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the commercialization of the Internet, content and related applications, including video
streaming, news, advertisements, and social interaction have moved online. It is broadly …

IXP scrubber: learning from blackholing traffic for ML-driven DDoS detection at scale

M Wichtlhuber, E Strehle, D Kopp, L Prepens… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are among the most critical cybersecurity
threats, jeopardizing the stability of even the largest networks and services. The existing …

DDoS never dies? An IXP perspective on DDoS amplification attacks

D Kopp, C Dietzel, O Hohlfeld - … Conference on Passive and Active Network …, 2021 - Springer
DDoS attacks remain a major security threat to the continuous operation of Internet edge
infrastructures, web services, and cloud platforms. While a large body of research focuses …

United we stand: Collaborative detection and mitigation of amplification ddos attacks at scale

D Wagner, D Kopp, M Wichtlhuber, C Dietzel… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Amplification Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks' traffic and harm are at an all-time
high. To defend against such attacks, distributed attack mitigation platforms, such as traffic …

Inferring BGP blackholing activity in the internet

V Giotsas, G Smaragdakis, C Dietzel, P Richter… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has been used for decades as the de facto protocol to
exchange reachability information among networks in the Internet. However, little is known …

Detecting peering infrastructure outages in the wild

V Giotsas, C Dietzel, G Smaragdakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Peering infrastructures, namely, colocation facilities and Internet exchange points, are
located in every major city, have hundreds of network members, and support hundreds of …