Understanding and defending against internet infrastructures supporting cybercrime operations [Documento electrónico]

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KONTE, Maria
Understanding and defending against internet infrastructures supporting cybercrime operations [Documento electrónico] / Maria Konte.- Georgia : [s.n.], 2015.- 1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm
Tese de Doutoramento apresentada à School of Computer Science do Georgia Institute of Technology, tendo como orientador Nick Feamster. Ficheiro de 2,82 MB em formato PDF (97 p.).

CRIME INFORMÁTICO, CRIME VIA INTERNET, REDE INFORMÁTICA, SEGURANÇA INFORMÁTICA, TESE, ESTADOS UNIDOS

I INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Introduction. 1.1.1 Challenges of defenses against cyber-criminal infrastructures. 1.1.2 Understanding malicious infrastructures and designing control plane based defenses. 1.1.3 Outline. 1.1.4 Bibliographic Notes. II RELATED WORK. 2.1 Measurement studies of FFSN [Fast Flux Service Networks]. 2.2 Defenses against FFSN and DNS-based cyber-crminal infrastructures. 2.3 Measurement studies and defenses against malicious networks. 2.4 Designing disincentives for cyber-criminal activities. III FAST FLUX SERVICE NETWORKS: DYNAMICS AND ROLES IN HOSTING ONLINE SCAMS. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Background. 3.2.1 Fast-Flux Mechanics. 3.3 Data. 3.3.1 Data Collection. 3.3.2 Postprocessing: Scam Campaigns. 3.3.3 Limitations. 3.4 Dynamics. 3.4.1 Rate of Change. 3.4.2 Rate of Accumulation. 3.4.3 Location of Change in DNS hierarchy. 3.5 Roles. 3.5.1 Location. 3.5.2 Sharing Across Campaigns. 3.6 Relationship to Blacklists. 3.7 Conclusion. IV RE-WIRING ACTIVITY OF MALICIOUS NETWORKS. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Data. 4.3 Results. 4.3.1 Re-Wiring Frequency. 4.3.2 Attachment Preference. 4.4 Recommendations and Future Work. 4.5 Conclusion. V ASWATCH: AN AS REPUTATION SYSTEM TOEXPOSE BULLETPROOF HOSTING ASES. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Background. 5.3 ASwatch. 5.3.1 System Overview. 5.3.2 Statistical Features. 5.3.3 System Operation. 5.4 Evaluation. 5.4.1 Data. 5.4.2 Experiment Setup. 5.4.3 Results. 5.4.4 Comparison to BGP Ranking. 5.5 Discussion. 5.6 Conclusion. VI CONCLUSION. 6.1 Summary of contributions. 6.2 Lessons learned and future work. REFERENCES.