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…
Guillermo Pereyra is currently security analyst at LACNIC CSIRT, the team responsible for the coordination functions needed to strengthen response capabilities in case of incidents involving Internet resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has six years of experience working on security incident response at the national Uruguayan ISP. More
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Taking down malicious websites means understanding which geographical regions or IP ranges can access them. RIPE Atlas can help collect the technical evidence needed to determine the geographic reach of a malicious site and provide accurate, location-based reports for its takedown.
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…
Rita Ingabire is a pre-doctoral researcher at IMDEA Networks Institute, Opportunistic Network Architectures Lab with a focus on intelligent cloud-edge design. Rita holds a Master of Science in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, both from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, where she graduated with honours. … More
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Clouds are essential. But predicting whether they can handle demands for heavy computing and low latency isn't straightforward. Turning to RIPE Atlas, we carried out a measurement campaign to find out whether it's possible to understand exactly what kind of latency cloud service users experience.
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…
Hailing from a research background in philosophy, linguistics and computer science, I came to the RIPE NCC back in 2016 and took on the role of RIPE Labs Editor in 2020. More
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When two Internet cables in the Baltic Sea were reported as broken last November, we turned to RIPE Atlas to examine the damage. In this episode, Emile Aben discusses what his analysis uncovered about the impact of these and similar incidents, and how the Internet remained resilient.
