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The recent advancements in machine learning have led to a wave of interest in adopting online learning-based approaches for long-standing attack mitigation issues. In particular, DDoS attacks remain a significant threat to network service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Wesley Joon-Wie Tann , Ee-Chien Chang

In this paper, we propose a new method for detecting unauthorized network intrusions, based on a traffic flow model and Cisco NetFlow protocol application. The method developed allows us not only to detect the most common types of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Aleksey A. Galtsev , Andrei M. Sukhov

The Internet has become a prime subject to security attacks and intrusions by attackers. These attacks can lead to system malfunction, network breakdown, data corruption or theft. A network intrusion detection system (IDS) is a tool used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Tanwir Ahmad , Dragos Truscan , Juri Vain , Ivan Porres

Denial-of-Service (DoS) conditions in enterprise networks are commonly attributed to malicious actors. However, availability can also be compromised by benign non-malicious insider behavior. This paper presents an empirical study of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rajendra Paudyal , Rajendra Upadhyay , Al Nahian Bin Emran , Lisa Donnan , Duminda Wijesekera

DDoS attacks involve overwhelming a target system with a large number of requests or traffic from multiple sources, disrupting the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network. Distinguishing between legitimate traffic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yuanyuan Wei , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Amardeep Singh , Fariza Sabrina , Seyit Camtepe

Technological advancements in various industries, such as network intelligence, vehicle networks, e-commerce, the Internet of Things (IoT), ubiquitous computing, and cloud-based applications, have led to an exponential increase in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Mike Nkongolo , Mahmut Tokmak

This paper presents a hybrid method for the detection of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that combines feature-based and volume-based detection. Our approach is based on an exponential moving average algorithm for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-14 P. D. Bojovic , I. Basicevic , S. Ocovaj , M. Popovic

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is a vulnerability class that has become prominent in recent years. Attackers can weaponize such weaknesses as part of asymmetric cyberattacks that exploit the slow worst-case matching time of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan , Berk Çakar , Ethan H. Burmane , James C. Davis , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

The development and implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been accelerated dramatically in recent years. As a result, a super-network is required to handle the massive volumes of data collected and transmitted to these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Reem M. Alzhrani , Mohammed A. Alliheedi

We present a comprehensive study on applying machine learning to detect distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attacks using large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) systems. While prior works and existing DDoS attacks have largely focused on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Arvin Hekmati , Nishant Jethwa , Eugenio Grippo , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The 2016 is remembered as the year that showed to the world how dangerous Distributed Denial of Service attacks can be. Gauge of the disruptiveness of DDoS attacks is the number of bots involved: the bigger the botnet, the more powerful the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Michele De Donno , Nicola Dragoni , Alberto Giaretta , Manuel Mazzara

IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy , Bichitrananda Behera

Centralized Software-Defined Networking (cSDN) offers flexible and programmable control of networks but suffers from scalability and reliability issues due to its reliance on centralized controllers. Decentralized SDN (dSDN) alleviates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mohammed N. Swileh , Shengli Zhang

The IoT is vulnerable to network attacks, and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) can provide high attack detection accuracy and are easily installed in IoT Servers. However, IDS are seldom evaluated in operational conditions which are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Mohammed Nasereddin , Mert Nakıp , Erol Gelenbe

With the goal of improving the security of Internet protocols, we seek faster, semi-automatic methods to discover new vulnerabilities in protocols such as DNS, BGP, and others. To this end, we introduce the LLM-Assisted Protocol Attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 R. Can Aygun , Yehuda Afek , Anat Bremler-Barr , Leonard Kleinrock

The identification of the exact path that packets are routed on in the network is quite a challenge. This paper presents a novel, efficient traceback strategy named Tracemax in context of a defense system against distributed denial of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peter Hillmann , Frank Tietze , Gabi Dreo Rodosek

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are key components for securing critical infrastructures, capable of detecting malicious activities on networks or hosts. The procedure of implementing a IDS for Internet of Things (IoT) networks is not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Luca Arnaboldi , Charles Morisset

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitute a major security threat to today's Internet. This challenge is especially pertinent to the Internet of Things (IoT) as devices have less computing power, memory and security mechanisms to mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Luca Arnaboldi , Charles Morrisset

In the past few years, cybersecurity is becoming very important due to the rise in internet users. The internet attacks such as Denial of service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks severely harm a website or server and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Arun Kumar Silivery , Kovvur Ram Mohan Rao , L K Suresh Kumar

DoS and DDoS attacks are widely used and pose a constant threat. Here we explore Probability Packet Marking (PPM), one of the important methods for reconstructing the attack-graph and detect the attackers. We present two algorithms.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Dina Barak-Pelleg , Daniel Berend , Thomas J. Robinson , Itamar Zimmerman