Analysis of web-related threats in ten years of logs from a scientificc portal

Rafael D.C. Santos, André R.A. Grégio, Jordan Raddick, Vamsi Vattki, Alex Szalay

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Abstract

SkyServer is an Internet portal to data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the largest online archive of astronomy data in the world. provides free access to hundreds of millions of celestial objects for science, education and outreach purposes. Logs of accesses to SkyServer comprise around 930 million hits, 140 million web services accesses and 170 million SQL submitted queries, collected over the past 10 years. These logs also contain indications of compromise attempts on the servers. In this paper, we show some threats that were detected in ten years of stored logs, and compare them with known threats in those years. Also, we present an analysis of the evolution of those threats over these years.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCyber Sensing 2012
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Print)9780819490865
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventCyber Sensing 2012 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: Apr 24 2012Apr 25 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume8408
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceCyber Sensing 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period4/24/124/25/12

Keywords

  • Security
  • Threat analysis
  • Web log analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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