Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowds

Wisdom of the crowds is the idea that groups of people can collectively make wise decisions. Research suggests that these crowds can even outsmart experts. To gather the wisdom of the crowds, this project utilizes a prediction market. To successfully gather the wisdom of the crowds, a predictionmarket has to overcome serious challenges, such as...

MD-Honeypot: On Adversarial Choices in DRDoS attacks

The Internet has grown from a few interconnections of trusted parties to an incredibly large network with many different use cases. While the Internet grew, threats emerged as well. Although there are many different threats on the Internet, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a threat that keeps rising in the threat landscape. The...

An Authentication Protocol for Implantable Medical Devices

Proper security mechanism are a crucial part of safe usage of Implantable Medical Devices. Multiple researchers presented various solutions to address this problem, basing them on different underlying principles. Within the scope of this thesis we perform a security analysis of the chosen authentication protocols. What is more, we present a new...

Opening Pandora’s Box: Charting the ecosystem of Command and Control infrastructures in a terabit-scale network

The amount of people and devices connected through the Internet has been growing at a rapid pace; as of June 2019 58,8% of the world’s population and billions of devices are joined by this vast network of information resources and services. Not every Internet user however has benign intentions. Cybercriminals use this technology for their own...

PaDAWaNS: Proactive Domain Abuse Warning and Notification System

The counterfeit market is rapidly expanding into the online realm. Large amounts of fraudulent webshops advertise luxury clothing and fashion accessories, but ship counterfeit products to their customers. Apart from customers, brand owners and domain registries experience a negative impact caused by these fake webshops. Current countermeasures...

Honeytrack: Persistent honeypot for the Internet of Things

The number of Internet of Things devices, small low-powered devices with internet connectivity, is undergoing strong growth. As connected devices become the standard, more types of devices are connected to home networks and made accessible from the Internet for convenience. As IoT devices are widely deployed in mass numbers, they can be easily...

Real time distributed simulation of BGP on the entire current Internet topology and Internet-like topologies

The Border Gateway Protocol is critical for the correct working of the Internet. When it fails the impact is usually high and therefore failures should be minimized. Unfortunately the configuration of BGP is prone to errors. Besides that, BGP is targeted by attacks of cyber criminals. A simulator capable of running BGP can reduce the number of...