The Network Predictors: Monitoring Network Measurements To Predict Corporate Performance Before It Is Public Knowledge

Network measurments are mostly used to studynetwork topology, performance and security. The thesis uses network measurements in relation to large Internet corporations like Salesforce, Netflix and Snapchat. The thesis attempts to verify whether it is possible to predict company performance by monitoring network measurements. For the three...

Measuring Darknet Markets

Background: A lot of scientists have tried to shed light on dark web markets. They did this by scraping these marketplaces over a period of time and describe what they were seeing. However, the methods used to measure these markets were never validated before. Research goal: This research will identify and validate the methods that are used in...

Understanding the role of IoT end users in Miria-Like bot remediation

Malicious software such as botnets are a threat to society and increasingly so through Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The large volume, pervasiveness and high vulnerability of IoT devices make them low hanging fruit for malicious actors. Currently, the biggest threat for insecure IoT devices is Mirai, a botnet which is deployed for DDoS...

CAML-IDS: A framework for the correct assessment of machine learning-based intrusion detection systems

The Internet is a relatively new technology that the world has become immensely dependent on. It is a tool that makes it possible to simplify our lives and better our society. But as with many things, there are people who with to exploit this tool we have for their own malicious gain. One of the mechanisms that we can use for protection against...