
Down the Black Hole: Dismantling Operational Practices of BGP Blackholing at IXPs
Marcin Nawrocki is a PhD student and research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, advised by Matthias Wählisch. He supports the Internet Technologies Lab with a special focus on securing the Internet infrastructure. His research includes the longitudinal deployment of honeypots, inter-domain DDoS attack mitigation as well as the security assessment … More
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Large Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks pose a major threat not only to end systems but also to the Internet infrastructure as a whole. Remote Triggered Black Hole filtering (RTBH) has been established as a tool to mitigate inter-domain DDoS attacks. The idea is simple: Signal special BG…








