[RFC1034] provided a description of how to cache negative responses. It however had a fundamental flaw in that it did not allow a name server to hand out those cached responses to other resolvers, thereby greatly reducing the effect of the caching. This document addresses issues raise in the light of experience and replaces [RFC1034 Section 4.3.4]. Negative caching was an optional part of the D...

Domain Name System (DNS), one of the important infrastructure in the Internet, was vulnerable to attacks, for the DNS designer didn’t take security issues into consideration at the beginning. The defects of DNS may lead to users’ failure of access to the websites, what’s worse, users might suffer a huge economic loss. In order to correct the DNS wrong resource records, we propose a Self-Feedbac...

An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of Internet traffic. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as building new Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), which allow networks to interconnect directly, and enc...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental Internet infrastructure, which resolves billions of queries per day in support of global communications and commerce. The most common use of DNS is to map human-friendly domain names to machine-readable IP addresses.The DNS is designed based on the client-server model where stub resolver at the client side originates DNS query for some query name an...

The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting novel challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Specifically, Internet service providers or neighborhood WiFi eavesdroppers can measure Internet traffic rates from smart home devices and infer consumers’ private in-home behaviors. Here we propose four strategies that device manufactur...

Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the critical services in the current Internet infrastructure. However DNS is vulnerable to a range of attacks. One of the fundamental weaknesses with the existing DNS protocols is that the request and response messages are transmitted on the network as plain text. This paper addresses important threats related to Doman Name System (DNS) using a hypervisor base...

This paper presents a mechanism for detecting and containing fast scanning computer network worms. The countermeasure mechanism, termed NEDAC, uses a behavioural detection technique that observes the absence of DNS resolution in newly initiated outgoing connections. Upon detection of abnormal behaviour by a host, based on the absence of DNS resolution, the detection system then invokes a data l...

Email worms remain a major network security concern, as they increasingly attack systems with intensity using more advanced social engineering tricks. Their extremely high prevalence clearly indicates that current network defence mechanisms are intrinsically incapable of mitigating email worms, and thereby reducing unwanted email traffic traversing the Internet. In this paper we study the effec...

The ability to accurately classify network traffic and to perform timely detection of the presence of unwanted classes of traffic has important implications for network operations and security. In recent years, classification has become more challenging due to applications that use ports that are not wellknown, that overload or masquerade with other applications’ well-known ports, and that may ...

The botnets are one of the most dangerous species of network-based attack. They cause severe network disruptions throughmassive coordinated attacks nowadays and the results of this disruption frequently cost enterprises large sums in financial losses. In this paper, we make an in-depth investigation on the issue of botnet detection and present a new security visualization tool for visualizing b...