Threat Identification Using Active DNS Measurements

The third publication for the TIDE project. Details more formally the research questions of this project. The DNS is a core service for the Internet. Most uses of the DNS are benign, but some are malicious. Attackers often use a DNS do- main to enable an attack (e.g. DDoS attacks). Detection of these attacks often happens passively, but this leads to a reactive detection of attacks. However, registering and configuring a domain takes time.
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Melting the Snow: Using Active DNS Measurements to Detect Snowshoe Spam Domains

The second publication for the TIDE project. It has received the Best Paper Award at NOMS 2018. Snowshoe spam is a type of spam which is notoriously hard to detect. Differently from regular spam, snowshoe spammers distribute the volume among many hosts, in order to make detection harder. To be successful, however spammers need to appear as legitimate as possible, for example, by adopting email best practice like Sender Policy Framework (SPF).
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Best Paper Award at NOMS 2018

TIDE was present at the Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018) conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Olivier was there to present “Melting the Snow: Detecting Snowshoe Spam Domains Using Active DNS Measurements”. NOMS 2018 was held in Taipei, Taiwan, from the 23rd till the 27th of April. NOMS has been held in every even-numbered year since 1988. This was the 30th anniversary of NOMS. Our work was very well received at the conference.
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Virtual Reality Browser

For the last couple of weeks I have been developing a Virtual Reality Browser. In true Linux fashion, I was not satisfied with the VR Browsers available in the Google Play Store, so I developed my own. Yes, I know, to really adhere to the fashion I should fork an existing one… It is, has been, an interesting experience. This is mainly due to me not having any experience in Android app development, at all.
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Fosdem 2017 Part2

Bit of a late post, but better late than never. [FOSDEM 2017][1] was a nice time, as usual. Didn’t get to every talk I wanted to go to, but did see many interesting talks.Looking at the FOSDEM 2017 post, the first talk I had selected and actually attended was ‘Introduction to A-Frame’. A nice introductory talk about A-Frame. A-Frame being a framework for web based Virtual Reality applications. The inspector part is really neat.
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