Internet-of-things has emerged out as an important invention towards employing the
tremendous power of wireless media in the real world. We can control our surroundings by …

Until now, an effective defense method against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
is yet to be offered by security systems. Incidents of serious damage due to DDoS attacks …

The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by
storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed several high-profile targets with massive distributed …

Managing and securing networks requires collecting and analyzing network traffic data in
real time. Existing telemetry systems do not allow operators to express the range of queries …

Fast Internet-wide scanning has opened new avenues for security research, ranging from
uncovering widespread vulnerabilities in random number generators to tracking the evolving …

In this paper, we provide the first large-scale empirical analysis of IoT devices in real-world
homes by leveraging data collected from user-initiated network scans of 83M devices in 16M …

Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science involving methods at the
intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. One of the data mining …

Despite the pervasive nature of Internet censorship and the continuous evolution of how and
where censorship is applied, measurements of censorship remain comparatively sparse …

In 2012, the Dutch National Research and Education Network, SURFnet, observed a
multitude of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against educational institutions …

Security researchers can send vulnerability notifications to take proactive measures in
securing systems at scale. However, the factors affecting a notification's efficacy have not …