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The LOBSTER Project: Passive Internet Traffic Monitors Detect Attacks

Via TERENA News.

The LOBSTER project, which has developed a pilot European infrastructure for accurate Internet traffic monitoring, concludes this week with its final review on 18 September.

Within the past four months, the number of passive monitoring sensors installed in the LOBSTER infrastructure has risen to 50, with around 200,000 new cyberattacks being detected. This is in addition to the 400,000 attacks that were captured during the previous year, and reflects the expansion of the sensor network and improved detection methods.

Sensors are now deployed in several European countries, as well as Singapore and the United States. They continue to monitor more than 2 million IP addresses, with the aggregate traffic capacity on the monitoring links exceeding 75 gigabits per second. The locations of sensors in the network can be viewed using Google Maps, where a click on each icon allows their traffic data to be examined.

A selection of the cyberattacks captured by LOBSTER’s sensors have also had their payload traces anonymised and have been made publicly available for research purposes via an 'attack trace repository'.

posted by Fergie @ 9/18/2007 11:53:00 AM