Publications

Conference Papers

• 90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield
  Raffaele Sommese, Anna Sperotto, Antonio Prado, Jeroen van der Ham, Antonia Affinito (2025)
  2025 21th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)

• To Block Or Not To Block?: Evaluating Parental Controls Across Routers, DNS Services, and Software
  Matteo Liberato, Antonia Affinito, Bernd Meijerink, Mattijs Jonker, Alessio Botta, Anna Sperotto (2025)
  9th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, TMA 2025

• Analyzing Privacy Implications of Mobile Apps Data Collection across Age Groups
  Adamo Mariani, Matteo Liberato, Anna Sperotto, Antonia Affinito (2024)
  2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), pp. 1–7

• Darkdns: Revisiting the value of rapid zone update
  Raffaele Sommese, Gautam Akiwate, Antonia Affinito, Moritz Muller, Mattijs Jonker, KC Claffy (2024)
  Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 454–461

• Prediction of RTT Through Radio-Layer Parameters in 4G/5G Dual-Connectivity Mobile Networks
  Stefania Zinno, Antonia Affinito, Nicola Pasquino, Giorgio Ventre, Alessio Botta (2023)
  2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), pp. 213–218

• Where. ru? Assessing the impact of conflict on Russian domain infrastructure
  Mattijs Jonker, Gautam Akiwate, Antonia Affinito, KC Claffy, Alessio Botta, Geoffrey Voelker, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Stefan Savage (2022)
  Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 159–165

• Local and public DNS resolvers: do you trade off performance against security?
  Antonia Affinito, Alessio Botta, Giorgio Ventre (2022)
  2022 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), pp. 1–9

• Domain name lifetimes: baseline and threats
  Antonia Affinito, Raffaele Sommese, Gautam Akiwate, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey Voelker, Alessio Botta, Mattijs Jonker, et al. (2022)
  Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)

• The impact of covid on network utilization: an analysis on domain popularity
  Antonia Affinito, Alessio Botta, Giorgio Ventre (2020)
  2020 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), pp. 1–6

• Spark-based port and net scan detection
  Antonia Affinito, Alessio Botta, Luigi Gallo, Mauro Garofalo, Giorgio Ventre (2020)
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1172–1179

Journal Articles

• The evolution of Mirai botnet scans over a six-year period
  Antonia Affinito, Stefania Zinno, Giovanni Stanco, Alessio Botta, Giorgio Ventre (2023)
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, 79, 103629

• Victimization in DDoS Attacks: The Role of Popularity and Industry Sector
  Muhammad Yasir Muzayan Haq, Antonia Affinito, Alessio Botta, Anna Sperotto, Lambert Nieuwenhuis, Mattijs Jonker, Abhishta (2024)
  Available at SSRN 4970423

PhD Thesis

• Malicious and Large-Scale Phenomena over the Internet: An Analysis based on DNS
  Antonia Affinito (2023)
  University of Naples Federico II, Italy