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most citedDeveloping Security Reputation Metrics for Hosting Providers

14 citations · 17 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2025

INFERMAL: Inferential analysis of maliciously registered domains

Yevheniya Nosyk, Maciej Korczyński, Carlos Gañán +5

Cybercriminals have long depended on domain names for phishing, spam, malware distribution, and botnet operation. To facilitate the malicious activities, they continually register…

cs.CR2018

Tranco: A Research-Oriented Top Sites Ranking Hardened Against Manipulation

Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob +2

In order to evaluate the prevalence of security and privacy practices on a representative sample of the Web, researchers rely on website popularity rankings such as the Alexa list.…

cs.CR2017★ 3 cited

Herding Vulnerable Cats: A Statistical Approach to Disentangle Joint Responsibility for Web Security in Shared Hosting

Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Tom van Goethem, Maciej Korczyński +5

Hosting providers play a key role in fighting web compromise, but their ability to prevent abuse is constrained by the security practices of their own customers. {\em Shared} hosti…

cs.CR2017

Rotten Apples or Bad Harvest? What We Are Measuring When We Are Measuring Abuse

Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Rainer Böhme, Carlos Gañán +2

Internet security and technology policy research regularly uses technical indicators of abuse in order to identify culprits and to tailor mitigation strategies. As a major obstacle…

cs.CR2016★ 14 cited

Developing Security Reputation Metrics for Hosting Providers

Arman Noroozian, Maciej Korczyński, Samaneh TajalizadehKhoob +1

Research into cybercrime often points to concentrations of abuse at certain hosting providers. The implication is that these providers are worse in terms of security; some are cons…

cs.CR2016

No domain left behind: is Let's Encrypt democratizing encryption?

Maarten Aertsen, Maciej Korczyński, Giovane C. M. Moura +2

The 2013 National Security Agency revelations of pervasive monitoring have lead to an "encryption rush" across the computer and Internet industry. To push back against massive surv…