The rise of packet rate attacks: When core routers turn evil
Guest Post: Fresh insights into the growing threat of high packet rate attacks.
Tag: measurement
Using honeybuckets to characterize cloud storage scanning in the wild
Guest Post: Researchers investigate the methods and frequency with which attackers target poorly secured cloud storage buckets.
Serial BGP hijackers: A reproducibility study and assessment of current dynamics
Guest Post: Profiling serial hijackers with less data than previous efforts while achieving similar accuracy.
[Podcast] The back of the class: Looking at 240/4 reachability
Geoff Huston discusses measuring the routability of 240.0.0.0/4 class-E addresses.
Highlights of AINTEC 2024
Measuring GenAI usage patterns, dynamic fixed-point values in eBPF, improving TCP/IP performance and more from AINTEC 2024.
[Podcast] Focusing purely on technology limits the understanding of Internet resilience
Nowmay Opalinski discusses the GEODE project and his analysis of Internet fragility in Pakistan.
Web PKI: How to protect a popular security service?
Guest Post: Lessons learned from a study on the interrelation of CAA, CT, and DANE in web PKI deployments.
Olympeaks: The impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Internet traffic
Guest Post: The ‘Olympeaks Observatory’ tracked record-breaking peaks in Internet traffic during the 2024 Olympics.
ccTLD phishing characterization
Guest Post: A longitudinal analysis of phishing attacks observed at three ccTLDs registries that manage more than 8M active domains.
[Podcast] Privacy and DNS Client Subnet
Geoff discusses EDNS0 client subnet signaling, how it affects traffic steering by the CDN, and the labs measurements.