In January 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic, a coronavirus variant spreading across the entire globe, reached central Europe. In the beginning, many people underestimated the impact the virus would have on our entire life in the coming months. Once the first lockdown was imposed in March it quickly became clear that things would drastically change. The Internet was a vital component to maintain as much normality as possible. With this increased demand the question arose whether the Internet can serve that demand or if it was near a collapse. To investigate this issue we started the COVID measurement project.

Network congestion, the state where nodes receive more data than they can handle, leads to packet losses, increased network delay and reduced throughput for all data flows passing through a congested node. Despite four decades of research on congestion-control algorithms or schemes, there is yet no “one-size fits-all" solution.

In the modern era, the backbone of our interconnected world is built upon a complex network of digital infrastructure. Digital infrastructure encompasses the underlying framework of technologies, systems, and networks that facilitate the flow of information, services, and data across the digital landscape. From the cables and hardware that form the physical infrastructure to the software and protocols that govern communication, digital infrastructure is the invisible yet indispensable foundation upon which our digital society thrives. This includes telecommunications networks, data centers, cloud computing services, internet exchanges, and much more. As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the importance of robust and resilient digital infrastructure becomes increasingly apparent, serving as the conduit for innovation, economic growth, and societal advancement. Understanding and nurturing this infrastructure is essential for ensuring a prosperous and interconnected future.

The Web consists of numerous Web communities, news sources, and services, which are often used by various actors for potentially nefarious purposes.

Many network operations, ranging from attack investigation and mitigation to traffic management, require answering network-wide flow queries in seconds. In this project, we investigate how to improve the response time for apriori unknown network-widequeries.

In an ever-evolving digital landscape, the concept of future-proofing the internet has become paramount. As society becomes increasingly reliant on digital connectivity for communication, commerce, and collaboration, ensuring the resilience, scalability, and security of the internet infrastructure has emerged as a critical concern. Future-proofing the internet involves implementing strategies and technologies to anticipate and adapt to the evolving demands and challenges of the digital age.

The number of IoT devices deployed within homes is increasing rapidly. It is estimated that the IoT population will increase to 20 billion by 2025. While users deploy some IoT devices explicitly, they are often unaware of the security threats and privacy consequences of using such devices.

In today's digital age, where virtually every aspect of our lives is interconnected through the internet, ensuring robust internet security has become a paramount concern. Internet security refers to the measures and protocols put in place to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data transmitted over the internet. With the proliferation of cyber threats such as malware, phishing attacks, ransomware, and data breaches, individuals, businesses, and governments alike must prioritize safeguarding their online activities and information.

Online content moderation is an important aspect of online social networks as it ensures that content posted by users abides by the platform’s guidelines and is appropriate for other users.

The spread of offensive language and hate speech online is an important and timely issue that exists on social networks.

The Internet is an essential part of most people’s daily life. Its popularity is largely driven by the diverse services it offers. To interact with services, user devices needs to identify and reach the infrastructure they are hosted on.

Weaponized information refers to carefully crafted information that aims to deceive people or information that is presented in such a way to manipulate or attack users.

In this project, we perform active and passive measurements to investigate the origins and causes of port 0 traffic on the Internet.

The underlying networks serving the online services and applications of a business must be reliable, secure, and highly available. Outages caused by defective network devices, misconfigurations, or security breaches can lead to expensive losses. Consequently, network verification is a crucial task in the network management and control process.

Video streaming is omnipresent and, due to recent global events, the number of people being at home watching streamed video only increased further.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide secure communication mechanisms, such as encryption and tunneling, enabling users to circumvent censorship, to access geo-blocked services, or to securely access an organization’s resources remotely. However, VPN services come with different vulnerabilities or security issues, including weak security protocols, privacy issues, and reliability. First, this project aims at detecting different VPN servers worldwide, then, at measuring how vulnerable these detected VPN service are to different kinds of attacks such as version downgrade attack.