Andrew Kalafut
Ph.D Candidate
Computer Science Program
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington
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About Me
I am currently Ph.D candidate in Computer Science at Indiana Universty. I work in the Networking Research Group with Professor Minaxi Gupta. My research interests are broadly in network security, especially security related Internet measurements. My current work focuses on identifying fraudulent activity such as Phishing sites by the way they are provisioning their infrstructure, such as their DNS servers.
I received a M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2006 from Indiana University Bloomington. I received my B.S degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bradley University.
Contact Info
Office: Lindley Hall 415
Office Phone: 856-3764
Email: akalafut at indiana dot edu
Mail:
Lindley Hall 215
150 S. Woodlawn Ave
Bloomington, IN 47405
In the News
- October 2009: Our work on flux in phishing web sites was covered by MIT Technology Review. This article was also picked up by ACM TechNews.
- July-August 2008: Our work on open web redirects was covered by several popular press venues. The Washington Post and the Herald Times both wrote about it. Indianapolis Channel 13 (WTHR), the local NBC affiliate, ran a story about it on their 11:00 news. The Indiana University News Room issued a press release about the work. This press release also ran in ACM TechNews. SC Magazine mentioned the work in an article on trusted web sites.
- July 2008: Our paper on open web redirects was invited to be included in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a community develped directory of software weakness types.
- May 2008: Our work on malware in peer-to-peer networks was the focus of an SC Magazine article.
Teaching
For the current semester (Fall 2009), I am the associate instructor (teaching assistant) for CSCI-P538. This is a course on computer networking at the graduate student level, taught by Professor Minaxi Gupta. I am responsible for the class projects in this course.
I have been associate instructor for several other classes in the past. During the fall 2008 semester, I was the course instructor for two 8 week topics courses. You can still find their web pages here: A290/A590 Adventures in Computing: C and Unix, A290/A590 Adventures in Computing: C++.
Publications
Peer-Reviews Journals and Magazines
Peer-Reviewed Conferences and Workshops
- Andrew Kalafut, Craig Shue, and Minaxi Gupta,
"Malicious Meccas: Detecting Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems",
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Mini-Conference, March 2010.
- Andrew Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta,
"Pollution Resilience for DNS Resolvers",
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2009.
[IEEE Xplore][Full Paper]
- Andrew Kalafut, Jacobus van der Merwe, and Minaxi Gupta,
"Communities of Interest for Intenet Traffic Prioritization",
IEEE Global Internet Symposium, April 2009.
[IEEE Xplore][Full Paper]
- Andrew Kalafut, Craig A. Shue, and Minaxi Gupta,
"Understanding Implications of DNS Zone Provisioning",
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2008.
[ACM Digital Library][Full Paper]
- Craig A. Shue, Andrew Kalafut, and Minaxi Gupta,
"Exploitable Redirects on the Web: Identification, Prevalence, and Defense",
USENIX Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT), July 2008.
[Full Paper]
- Craig Shue, Andrew Kalafut, and Minaxi Gupta,
"The Web is Smaller than it Seems",
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), San Diego, CA, October. 2007.
[ACM Digital Library][Full Paper]
- Andrew Kalafut, Abhinav Acharya, and Minaxi Gupta,
"A Study of Malware in Peer-to-Peer Networks",
ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2006.
[ACM Digital Library][Full Paper]
- Michael J. Jipping, Andrew Kalafut, Nathan Kooistra, and Kathleen Ludewig,
"Investigating Wired and Wireless Networks Using a Java-based Programmable Sniffer",
ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), June 2004.
[ACM Digital Library]
Invited Papers
Book Chapters
- Minaxi Gupta, Markus Jakobsson, Andrew Kalafut, Sidney Stamm, "Crimeware and Peer-to-Peer Networks," Book chapter in Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, edited by Jakobsson and Ramzan published by Symantec Press, ISBN: 0-321-50195-0, 2008.