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 …

Content delivery network security: A survey

M Ghaznavi, E Jalalpour… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure to deliver digital contents to
end users with high performance. CDNs are critical to provide and protect the availability of …

[PDF][PDF] A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Internet Measurement Techniques for Cyber Security

M Safaei Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
abstract 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 …

Cached and confused: Web cache deception in the wild

SA Mirheidari, S Arshad, K Onarlioglu… - 29th USENIX Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
Web cache deception (WCD) is an attack proposed in 2017, where an attacker tricks a
caching proxy into erroneously storing private information transmitted over the Internet and …

{CDN} Cannon: Exploiting {CDN}{Back-to-Origin} Strategies for Amplification Attacks

Z Lin, Z Lin, X Liu, J Chen, R Guo, C Chen… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide high availability, speed up content delivery, and
safeguard against DDoS attacks for their hosting websites. To achieve the aforementioned …

Web cache deception escalates!

SA Mirheidari, M Golinelli, K Onarlioglu… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
Web Cache Deception (WCD) tricks a web cache into erroneously storing sensitive content,
thereby making it widely accessible on the Internet. In a USENIX Security 2020 paper titled" …

Understanding the impact of encrypted DNS on internet censorship

L Jin, S Hao, H Wang, C Cotton - Proceedings of the Web Conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
DNS traffic is transmitted in plaintext, resulting in privacy leakage. To combat this problem,
secure protocols have been used to encrypt DNS messages. Existing studies have …

Hyper-specific prefixes: gotta enjoy the little things in interdomain routing

KZ Sediqi, L Prehn, O Gasser - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Autonomous Systems (ASes) exchange reachability information between each other using
BGP---the de-facto standard inter-AS routing protocol. While IPv4 (IPv6) routes more specific …

{End-Users} get maneuvered: Empirical analysis of redirection hijacking in content delivery networks

S Hao, Y Zhang, H Wang, A Stavrou - 27th USENIX Security Symposium …, 2018 - usenix.org
The success of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) relies on the mapping system that
leverages dynamically generated DNS records to distribute client's request to a proximal …

Temporal {CDN-Convex} Lens: A {CDN-Assisted} Practical Pulsing {DDoS} Attack

R Guo, J Chen, Y Wang, K Mu, B Liu, X Li… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
As one cornerstone of Internet infrastructure, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) work as a
globally distributed proxy platform between clients and websites, providing the …