Andrew Kalafut Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Systems Grand Valley State University

I am looking for students to help with research projects in security and networking. Please stop by my office if you are interested in a research opportunity.

Contact

Teaching

• Fall 2016:
  • CIS 457
  • CIS 458
• Summer 2016:
  • CIS 361
• Winter 2016:
  • CIS 358
  • CIS 457
• Previously:
  • CIS 150
  • CIS/EGR 261
  • CIS 451
  • CIS/MTH 465
  • CIS 654
  • CIS 672

Research

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Conferences and Workshops

• Douglas MacFarland, Craig Shue, and Andrew Kalafut, "Characterizing Optimal DNS Amplification Attacks and Effective Mitigation", Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), March 2015.
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• Andrew Kalafut, Minaxi Gupta, Christopher A. Cole, Lei Chen, and Nathan E. Myers, "An Empirical Study of Orphan DNS Servers in the Internet", ACM SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2010.
• Andrew Kalafut, Minaxi Gupta, Pairoj Rattadilok, and Pragneshkumar Patel, "Surveying DNS Wildcard Usage Among the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM), September 2010.
• Andrew Kalafut, Craig Shue, and Minaxi Gupta, "Malicious Hubs: Detecting Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Mini-Conference, March 2010.
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• Andrew Kalafut and Minaxi Gupta, "Pollution Resilience for DNS Resolvers", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2009.
  [IEEE Xplore][pdf]
• Andrew Kalafut, Jacobus van der Merwe, and Minaxi Gupta, "Communities of Interest for Intenet Traffic Prioritization", IEEE Global Internet Symposium, April 2009.
  [IEEE Xplore][pdf]
• 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][pdf]
• 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.
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• 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][pdf]
• 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][pdf]
• 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][pdf]

Peer-Reviews Journals and Magazines

• Craig Shue, and Andrew Kalafut, "Resolvers Revealed: Characterizing DNS Resolvers and their Clients", ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol 12, No 4, July 2013.
  [ACM Digital Library]
• Craig Shue, Andrew Kalafut, Mark Allman, and Curis Taylor, "On Building Inexpensive Network Capabilities", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol 42, No 2, April 2012.
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• Craig Shue, Andrew Kalafut, and Minaxi Gupta, "Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems and their Internet Connectivity", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 20, No 1, Feb 2012.
  [IEEE Xplore]
• Andrew Kalafut, Craig Shue, and Minaxi Gupta, "Touring DNS Open Houses for Trends and Configurations", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 19, No 6, December 2011.
  [IEEE Xplore]
• D. Kevin McGrath, Andrew Kalafut, and Minaxi Gupta, "Phishing Infrastructure Fluxes All the Way", IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine special issue on Securing the Domian Name System, pages 21-28, September 2009.
  [IEEE Computer Society Digital Library][Full Paper]

Invited Papers

• Craig A. Shue, Andrew Kalafut, and Minaxi Gupta, "A Unified Approach to Intra-Domain Security", IEEE International Symposium on Secure Computing (SecureCom), August 2009.
  [IEEE Computer Society Digital Library][IEEE Xplore][pdf]

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.

Ph.D Dissertation

• Andrew Kalafut, "Proactive Cyberfraud Detection Through Infrastructure Analaysis", Indiana University, July 2010.