Giovane C. M. Moura, Ph.D.

Data Scientist @ SIDN Labs
Assistant Professor @ TU Delft Cyber Security group
E-mail: giovane at protonmail .ch
Others: GitHub, Google Scholar, Twitter, LinkedIn


Biography ~ Recent Publications ~ Older Publications ~ Talks


Short-bio: I am a Data Scientist with SIDN Labs, the research arm of SIDN, the Netherland’s .nl top-level domain operator. I am also an Assisant Professor at TU Delft’s CyberSecurity group. My research focus on bringing academic rigor to network operations, to improve performance, security and stability of networked systems.

Recent publications (2016–now):

Internet Centralization and Consolidation

  1. Raffaele Sommese, Mattijs Jonker, Jeroen van der Ham, Giovane C. M. Moura: Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience . In: 2022 International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2022), Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov. 2022. [PDF]

  2. Luciano Zembruzki, Raffaele Sommese, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Arthur Jacobs, Mattijs Jonker, Giovane C. M. Moura. Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation. In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) - [PDF]

  3. Giovane C. M. Moura, Sebastian Castro, Wes Hardaker, Maarten Wullink, Cristian Hesselman. Clouding up the Internet: how centralized is DNS traffic becoming?. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Virtual Conference (IMC2020), Oct. 2020. [PDF], IMC2020 Presentation, RIPE81 presentation.

Anycast and DNS Engineering

  1. Moura, G., Hardaker, W., Heidemann, J., and M. Davids, “Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators”, RFC 9199, DOI 10.17487/RFC9199, March 2022, [TXT]

  2. Giovane C. M. Moura, John Heidemann, Wes Hardaker, Jeroen Bulten, João Ceron and Cristian Hesselman. Old but Gold: Prospecting TCP to Engineer DNS Anycast (extended). Proceedings of the 2022 Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM2022). [PDF] [Best Paper Award]

  3. Raffaele Sommese, Gautam Akiwate , Mattijs Jonker , Giovane C. M. Moura, Marco Davids, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij , Geoffrey M. Voelker , Stefan Savage , K.C. Claffy, Anna Sperotto. Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure. 2021 International Workshop on Traffic and Monitoring Analysis (TMA 2021). Online, 2021. [PDF] [Best Paper Award]

  4. Leandro M. Bertholdo; João M. Ceron; Lisandro Z. Granville; Giovane C. M. Moura; Cristian Hesselman; Roland van Rijswijk-Deij. BGP Anycast Tuner: Intuitive Route Management for Anycast Services. In: 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2020), Online. [PDF]

  5. Giovane C. M. Moura, John Heidemann, Ricardo de O. Schmidt and Wes Hardaker. Cache Me If You Can: Effects of DNS Time-to-Live. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Oct. 2019 (ACM IMC2019). [PDF]

  6. Moritz Müller, Giovane C. M. Moura, Ricardo de O. Schmidt and John Heidemann. Recursives in the Wild: Engineering Authoritative DNS Servers. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. London, UK, 2017, 489–495 (ACM IMC2017) [PDF]

Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS)

  1. Giovane C. M. Moura, Sebastian Castro, John Heidemann and Wes Hardaker. TsuNAME: exploiting misconfiguration and vulnerability to DDoS DNS. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC2021) .Virtual, Nov. 2021. [PDF]

  2. Giovane C. M. Moura, Cristian Hesselman, Gerald Schaapman, Nick Boerman, Octavia de Weerdt . Into the DDoS maelstrom: a longitudinal study of a scrubbing service . In : 5th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2020), Online Conference. [PDF]

  3. Giovane C. M. Moura, John Heidemann, Moritz Müller, Ricardo de O. Schmidt and Marco Davids. When the Dike Breaks: Dissecting DNS Defenses During DDoS. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Boston, MA, USA, Oct. 2018. (ACM IMC2018) [PDF]

  4. Giovane C. M. Moura, Ricardo de O. Schmidt, John Heidemann, Wouter B. de Vries, Moritz Müller, Lan Wei and Christian Hesselman. Anycast vs. DDoS: Evaluating the November 2015 Root DNS Event. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference(ACM IMC2016) Nov. 2016. [PDF]

DNS Security and Zone Contents

  1. X. Bouwman, V. Le Pochat, P. Foremski, T. Van Goethem, C. Gañán, G. Moura, S. Tajalizadehkhoob, W. Joosen, M. van Eeten: _ Helping hands: Measuring the impact of a large threat intelligence sharing community_. In: 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22 - BOSTON, MA, USA). Aug. 10-12, 2022 [PDF]

  2. Thijs van den Hout Thymen Wabeke Giovane C. M. Moura Cristian Hesselman: Recognizing Logos for phishing detection and other scams: a TLD case study . Proceedings of the 2022 Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM2022) Online, 2022. . [PDF]

  3. Thymen Wabeke, Giovane C. M. Moura, Nanneke Franken and Cristian Hesselman . Counterfighting Counterfeit: Detecting and Taking down Fraudulent Webshops at a ccTLD. Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop. (PAM2020) Eugene, OR, USA, Mar. 2020. [PDF]

  4. Raffaele Sommese, Giovane C. M. Moura, Mattijs Jonker, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij , Alberto Dainotti, KC Claffy, Anna Sperotto. When parents and children disagree: Diving into DNS delegation inconsistency. Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop. (PAM2020) Eugene, OR, USA, Mar. 2020. [PDF]

  5. Pawel Foremski, Oliver Gasser, Giovane C. M. Moura. DNS Observatory: The Big Picture of the DNS . Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Oct. 2019) (ACM IMC2019). [PDF]

  6. M. Korczynski, M. Wullink, S. Tajalizadehkhoob, G. C. M. Moura, A. Noroozian, D. Bagley, and C. Hesselman, Cybercrime After the Sunrise: A Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse in New gTLDs, ACM Asia Conference on Computer & Communications Security 2018 (ASIA CCS ’18), Incheon, Republic of Korea, June 2018. [PDF]

  7. Maarten Aertsen, Maciej Korczynski, Giovane C. M. Moura, Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, and Jan van den Berg. 2017. No domain left behind: is Let’s Encrypt democratizing encryption?. In Proceedings of Applied Networking Research Workshop 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, July 15 (ANRW‘17). [PDF]

  8. Giovane C. M. Moura, Moritz Müller, Marco Davids, Maarten Wullink, and Cristian Hesselman: Domain names abuse and TLDs: from monetization towards mitigation. 3rd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies (DISSECT 2017), co-located with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2017). [PDF]

Systems

  1. G. Moura, M. Davids, C. Schutijser and C. Hesselman: Diving into the NTP Pool. In: SIDN Technical Report (Oct. 2021) PDF

  2. Maarten Wullink, Giovane. C. M. Moura and Cristian Hesselman: DMap: automating domain name ecosystem measurements and applications. In: 2018 International Workshop on Traffic and Monitoring Analysis (TMA 2018). Vienna, June 2018. [PDF]

  3. Cristian Hesselman, Giovane C. M. Moura, Ricardo de O. Schmidt, Cees Toet. Increasing DNS Security and Stability through a Control Plane for Top-level Domain Operators. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017, 55.1: 197-203. [PDF]

  4. Maarten Wullink, Giovane. C. M. Moura , Moritz Müller and Cristian Hesselman. ENTRADA: a High-Performance Network Traffic Data Streaming Warehouse. In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016) – Experience Session. Istanbul, Turkey, May 2016. [PDF]

  5. Giovane. C. M. Moura , Moritz Müller, Maarten Wullink and Cristian Hesselman. nDEWS: a New Domains Early Warning System for TLDs. In: IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2016), co-located with IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016). Istanbul, Turkey, May 2016. [PDF]

  6. Maarten Wullink, Moritz Müller, Marco Davids, Giovane C. M. Moura, and Cristian Hesselman. ENTRADA: Enabling DNS Big Data Applications. In: APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCRIME 2016), Toronto, ON, Canada. June 1–3, 2016. [PDF]

 

 

Last updated on Nov 16, 2022.