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The RIPE Labs Article Competition - RIPE 88

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The RIPE Labs article competition is back again! Have something interesting to say about the past, present, or future state of the Internet? Tell your story on RIPE Labs and win a chance to join us at RIPE 88 this May in Krakow, Poland.

Everything you need to know about the competition, including a more specific list of what we look from the best RIPE Labs articles, is available on the RIPE Labs Competition Rules page.

If you're eligible to enter and you have an idea for an article you’d like to put forward, it's time to get to work. All articles submitted to the competition will go through the usual RIPE Labs review process. When you're ready to send us your entry, just remember to tick the box indicating you'd like this article to be considered for the competition entry before you click to submit it for approval.

We'll stop taking new entries on 5 April 2024 at 23:00 (local Amsterdam time). If you're looking for inspiration, you can see entries from the previous competitions here and here. Good luck!

Automated Assurance on a Path to Becoming Practical

Automated Assurance on a Path to Becoming Practical

Kathleen Moriarty

7 min read

Cloud native architecture is a game changer for security at scale. Whether used on-premises or in the cloud, capabilities to ease the management of IT assets are improving. And while there’s a long way to go in simplifying interfaces and reducing skill-set barriers – this too will come in time.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Cyberattacks - Dangling Resource Abuse on Cloud Platforms

Cloudy with a Chance of Cyberattacks - Dangling Resource Abuse on Cloud Platforms

Haya Schulmann

7 min read

Dangling DNS records are a target for bad actors, but distinguishing malicious from legitimate changes in resources isn't always easy. The team from ATHENE report on the main findings of their research into the abuse of dangling resources in the cloud.

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Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Diverging Actions and Mixed Effects

Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Diverging Actions and Mixed Effects

Moritz Müller

10 min read

EU sanctions on Russian controlled content require ISPs in member states to block access to websites. But our research reveals that their implementation varies widely, both between and within individual EU member states, raising important questions about their effectiveness.

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NTP Pool - The Internet Timekeeper

NTP Pool - The Internet Timekeeper

Giovane Moura

12 min read

The NTP Pool is a network of volunteer-run servers providing time synchronisation services to millions of computers over the Internet using the Network Time Protocol (NTP). But how does it map clients to NTP servers? And why are some clients more equal than others? The team at SIDN Labs investigate…

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Measuring NAT64 Usage in the Wild

Measuring NAT64 Usage in the Wild

Elizabeth Boswell

7 min read

With IPv4 address space depleted, it's increasingly important to transition to IPv6. IPv6 transition mechanisms, which allow the two protocols to interoperate, can help. One such mechanism is NAT64. We use RIPE Atlas to measure the usage of NAT64, and compare NAT64 paths to native IPv4 paths.

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Crashing the Party – Vulnerabilities in RPKI Relying Party Software

Crashing the Party – Vulnerabilities in RPKI Relying Party Software

Niklas Vogel

10 min read

RPKI adoption is on the rise. And that's a good thing. But as the number of networks deploying RPKI grows, so does the potential impact of vulnerabilities in its implementation. CURE is a novel fuzzing tool developed by ATHENE researchers to test vulnerabilities in RPKI Replying Party software.

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KeyTrap Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Exploit Fundamental Design Flaw in DNSSEC

KeyTrap Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Exploit Fundamental Design Flaw in DNSSEC

Haya Schulmann

10 min read

KeyTrap - described by some as 'the worst attack on DNS ever discovered' - is capable of exhausting CPU resources and stalling widely used DNS implementations and public DNS providers, like Google Public DNS and Cloudflare. The research team from ATHENE explain how they discovered the attack.

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