The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto routing protocol of the Internet. In BGP, networks (Autonomous Systems, ASes) advertise to neighboring ASes the IP address blocks (IP prefixes) they host and the ones hosted by other ASes towards which ...

The Internet's combination of low communication cost, global reach, and functional anonymity has allowed fraudulent scam volumes to reach new heights. Designing effective interventions requires first understanding the context: how scammers reach ...

While scans of the IPv4 space are ubiquitous, today little is known about scanning activity in the IPv6 Internet. In this work, we present a longitudinal and detailed empirical study on large-scale IPv6 scanning behavior in the Internet, based on ...

With the advancement of technology and the development of new tools, games, applications and social media sites, it is getting difficult every day to keep up with threats and vulnerabilities associated with these tools, apps or websites, especially for ...

Cybercriminal activity has exploded in the past decade, with diverse threats ranging from phishing attacks to botnets and drive-by-downloads afflicting millions of computers worldwide. In response, a volunteer defense has emerged, led by security ...

Internet phishing has become a continual threat that keeps growing day by day. Phishing takes advantage of the user’s trust and use social engineering techniques to deceive them. Despite having several anti-phishing strategies, the threat of phishing is ...

One of the primary filtering methods that the Great Firewall of China (GFW) relies on is poisoning DNS responses for certain domains. When a DNS request is poisoned by the GFW, multiple DNS responses are received - both legitimate and poisoned ...

There has never been a greater need for comprehensive Internet metrics than now. Even basic security-critical facts about the Internet, such as "How many systems are botted?" or "What networks still don't do Source Address Validation?" remain murky and ...

We conducted a series of in-depth focus groups wherein users provided rationales for their own online privacy behaviors. Our data suggest that individuals often take action with little thought or evaluation, even showing surprise when confronted with ...

The value of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) traces is based on being able to meaningfully parse the complex data patterns appearing therein as based on the pre-defined intrusion 'detection' rule sets. As IDS traces monitor large groups of servers, ...

At the present, personal sensitive information protection is faced with serious situation. In order to solve the problems in personal sensitive information protection in internet, the model of security protection in personal sensitive information is ...

Denial-of-Service attacks are the largest threat to Internet and the Internet of Things despite the fact that a large number of defense approaches has been proposed by the research community. In this paper we introduce IP Fast Hopping, effective network ...

A directory is a mapping from names to values. Directories include systems like DNS, a hierarchical distributed naming system for resources connected to the Internet. DNS associates addresses with domain names assigned to each of the participating ...

How does malware propagate? Does it form spikes over time? Does it resemble the propagation pattern of benign files, such as software patches? Does it spread uniformly over countries? How long does it take for a URL that distributes malware to be ...

The HTTP protocol is designed for stateless transactions, but many Web applications require a session to be maintained between a Web browser and a server creating a stateful environment. Each Web application decides how its session is managed and needs ...

Drive-by download attacks where web browsers are subverted by malicious content delivered by web servers have become a common attack vector in recent years. Several methods for the detection of malicious content on web pages using data mining techniques ...

The existing e-learning environments focus on the reusability of learning resources not adaptable to suit learners' needs [1]. Previous research shows that users' personalities have impact on their Internet behaviours and preferences. This study ...

Phishing emails are more active than ever before and putting the average computer user and organizations at risk of significant data, brand and financial loss. Through an analysis of a number of phishing and ham email collected, this paper focused on ...

Due to Internet, people prefer using emails instead of traditional post mails, because of its simple and easy to use. Meanwhile unsolicited emails (spam) become a serious problem, as sending bulk emails are almost cost free in terms of time and money. ...

World trade and related business ventures are more or less dependent on communication. Information content of communication is to be protected as miscommunication or incorrect information may ruin any business prospect. Communication using Internet or ...