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Maynard Koch

Based in Dresden, Germany

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I am a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch. Before joining TU Dresden, I graduated with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. My research focuses on Internet measurements to improve network security. I'm particularly interested in DNS and scalable IPv6 scanning.

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Make This One Change to Prevent Routing Loops in Your Network

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Routing loops can trap packets between routers, preventing them from reaching their destination. In some cases, routers even duplicate looping packets, amplifying traffic and threatening Internet stability. We look at how this happens and how operators can prevent it.

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Forward to Hell? On Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders For Amplification Attacks

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DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting and protocol restrictions have improved the situation, but DNS-based reflective amplification attacks persist. Focusing on the threat vector intr…

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