A few project ideas… Gareth Tyson Gareth.Tyson@qmul.ac.uk

A few project ideas…Gareth Tyson

Gareth.Tyson@qmul.ac.uk

Cloud honeypots stuff

• Setup a cloud server (in the cloud)• Make it vulnerable and tempt attackers to attack you (a honeypot)

• Monitor “attacks” on your cloud server• E.g. people trying to login to your machine via SSH

• Profile the attacks• Who is connecting to you?• Can they gain control of your server?• What do they do when they take control?

Internet content measurement stuff

• Lots of “content” on the Internet• Websites• Videos• Music

• Where is the world’s content hosted?• Which country?• Which network?• Which data centre?

• How are you connected to the content?• What is the delay (e.g. 20 milliseconds?)

Social networky stuff

• Many social network exist• E.g. Facebook, Twitter

• Many studies to perform• E.g. looking at how information spreads through Twitter

• Studying Untappd• A social network based around beer!• Can “check-in” beers and review it• Share with your friends

A few project ideas…Gareth Tyson

Gareth.Tyson@qmul.ac.uk