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 …

In democratic societies, protest is a legitimate and necessary way for communities to seek
redress for issues that are ignored by decision-makers. In the wake of large projects …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the adoption of severe measures to counteract the spread of
the infection. Social distancing and lockdown measures modified people's habits, while the …

Internet workload is a mix of many and complex sources. Therefore, its accurate and realistic
replication is a difficult and challenging task. Such difficulties are exacerbated by the …

" Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet
technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. While the debate has advanced …

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on Network Time Protocol (NTP)
amplification, which became prominent in December 2013, have received significant global …

Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor
contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time …

A growing body of research has studied how autocratic regimes interfere with internet
communication to contain challenges to their rule. In this review article, we survey the …

The border gateway protocol (BGP) is the Internet's default inter-domain routing protocol that
manages connectivity among autonomous systems (ASes). Over the past two decades many …

A nation-scale firewall, colloquially referred to as the “Great Firewall of China,” implements
many different types of censorship and content filtering to control China's Internet traffic. Past …