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Evaluating IP Blacklists Effectiveness. (arXiv:2308.08356v1 [cs.CR])
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IP blacklists are widely used to increase network security by preventing
communications with peers that have been marked as malicious. There are several
commercial offerings as well as several free-of-charge blacklists maintained by
volunteers on the web. Despite their wide adoption, the effectiveness of the
different IP blacklists in real-world scenarios is still not clear. In this
paper, we conduct a large-scale network monitoring study which provides
insightful findings regarding the effectiveness of blacklists. The results
collected over several hundred …
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