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Job opportunity: DDoS Research Assistant for the Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre

Written by threatstopbme | July 23, 2015

The Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre is seeking a Research Assistant for DDoS measurement. The Centre's overall objective is to create a sustainable and internationally competitive centre for academic research into cybercrime.

ThreatSTOP has sponsored this effort because we believe this type of research benefits the entire security community. More information about the job opportunity below, and here.

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The Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre (more information about our vision for this brand new initiative are in this earlier article) now has a Research Assistant position to fill:

...and with special thanks for the generosity of ThreatSTOP, who have funded this extra position:

  • We seek someone to work on distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) measurement. We have been gathering data on reflected UDP DDoS events for many months and we want to extend our coverage and develop a much more detailed analysis of the location of perpetrators and victims along with real-time datafeeds of relevant information to assist in reducing harm. Full details are here.

Please follow the links to read the relevant formal advertisement for the details about exactly who and what we’re looking for and how to apply.