Petros Gigis is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at University College London. His research interests include computer networks, Internet routing, and Internet measurements. More
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In this article, we introduce openPenny, an open-source traffic checker currently under development as part of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. The goal of openPenny is to help network operators identify non-spoofed traffic arriving at unexpected entry points: this offers a new primitive to de…
I am a Full Professor with UPC BarcelonaTech and Scientific Director at the Barcelona Neural Networking Center (BNN). Between 2013-2018, I was co-founder and chairman at Talaia Networks, an AI-based cybersecurity startup. For this activity I received research valorization awards from both the Catalan Government and UPC, including the Fiber … More
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GuardXP is a collaborative project between UPC and CSUC supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2024. It aims to develop a privacy-enhancing tool to combat web tracking and data exploitation. Unlike traditional blacklist-based solutions, GuardXP uses code analysis to detect and block trac…
Anna Maria Mandalari works as Assistant Professor at University College London (UCL). She is affiliated with the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, where she is the Director of the SafeNetIoT laboratory and the Director of the Internet Engineering/Telecommunications MSc/MRes Programme. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Security … More
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So you installed a smart plug in your home. It works perfectly. But do you really know what data it’s sending, and where? Is it respecting your privacy? Is it even following the law? A research project supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund delves into uncertainties surrounding IoT devic…
Soroush Rafiee Rad is a researcher in information dynamic, complex systems analysis and probabilistic modelling currently affiliated with University of St Andrews. Before joining St Andrews he held research positions at University of Milan, Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena, University of Amsterdam and Bayreuth University. Soroush's research is focused on … More
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The Domain ASN Mapper represents a critical foundational component of the Domain Reputation Measure project funded by RIPE NCC Community Projects. This component enables large-scale analysis of domain infrastructure by resolving DNS records and mapping them to Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). This…
I am a system administrator turned network & security researcher, looking at digital infrastructures & society, and operators. Currently working at the Max-Planck Institut for Informatics as a senior researcher; Usually speaking for myself and not my affiliation. More
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Next in our series of articles on navigating network measurements, it's time to talk about how measurement.network helps to support artefact evaluation with infrastructure.
Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. More
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This is our second half yearly update. We publish notes with every release and promote new features and bug fixes on social media, these reports are an opportunity to step back and look at the broad sweep of change.
Dr. Roland Bless is Associate Professor and senior researcher at the Institute of Telematics at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany. He studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe until 1996 and got his PhD in the area Quality-of-Service Management in 2002. In 2009 he finished his Habilitation … More
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The complexity of modern networks is increasing, as is the challenge of network management and control. Solutions that rely on AI only seem to exacerbate the issue and today, even well-managed large networks are seeing the consequences. This article presents KIRA, a zero-touch control plane connect…
Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. More
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You must have a second factor to login to PeeringDB from 1 July 2025. If you automate updates using our API, you'll need to use an API Key. But anonymous usage will not be going away. You can query the website or API without authenticating. This change will impact users who make updates or need acc…
The RIPE NCC will launched a new version of the RIPEstat UI built on the original 2013 version, but with a much more modern look and feel. In this article, the team highlights some of the changes made and shares a first look at the new design.
Giovane is a Data Scientist with SIDN Labs (.nl registry) and a Assistant Professor at TU Delft, in the Netherlands. He works on security and Internet measurements research projects. You can reach him at https://giovane-moura.nl/ More
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Not a big fan of pandas dataframe syntax? Prefer to use SQL? Then suffer no more! In this detailed, step-by-step guide using RIPE Atlas public data, find out how DuckDB allows you to use SQL without any DB server on a Jupyter Notebook.
