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Peeking Through the Cloud: Client Density Estimation via DNS Cache Probing

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Monrose, Fabian Rajab, Moheeb Abu Provos, Niels
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Reliable network demographics are quickly becoming a much sought-after digital commodity. However, as the need for more refined Internet demographics has grown, so too has the tension between privacy and utility. Unfortunately, current techniques lean too much in favor of functional requirements over protecting the privacy of users. For example, the most prominent proposals for measuring the relative popularity of a Web site depend on the deployment of client-side measurement agents that are generally perceived as infringing on users’ privacy, thereby limiting their wide-scale adoption. Moreover, the client-side nature of these techniques also makes them susceptible to various manipulation tactics that undermine the integrity of their results. In this article, we propose a new estimation technique that uses DNS cache probing to infer the density of clients accessing a given service. Compared to earlier techniques, our scheme is less invasive as it does not reveal user-specific traits, and is more robust against manipulation. We demonstrate the flexibility of our approach through two important security applications. First, we illustrate how our scheme can be used as a lightweight technique for measuring and verifying the relative popularity rank of different Web sites. Second, using data from several hundred botnets, we apply our technique to indirectly measure the infected population of this increasing Internet phenomenon.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	21
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15335399
e-ISSN	15576051
DOI	10.1145/1852096.1852097
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	3
Journal	ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2010-10-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Network security Web metering Botnets Client density estimation Measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications

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