This website is operated and maintained by researchers of the Software Security Group in the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum.
Most likely, you are visiting this website because you have received requests from our network range that you might consider an attack or scan. Please note that the requests we are conducting from these IP addresses are benign and we are not attacking you or anyone else.
At almost all times, we are running a variety of different experiments and scans from our network to evaluate and assess the global characteristics of the Internet and its security and privacy posture. Our current experiments are detailed below.
We hope that the information below answers your immediate questions and ease your concerns. However, we understand that they might not answer all your questions. Therefore, if you wish to receive additional information about our research projects impacting you or if you wish to be excluded from our measurements, please reach out directly to us by email to softsec+measurements@rub.de with the relevant information (source/destination IP address, address range, what has impacted you, etc.). We will be more than happy to provide more information about our research project and/or exclude you from our experiments through our blocklist. Finally, please note that we store collected data for research purposes only and that we only store aggregated and anonymous statistics whenever possible.
We currently perform measurements from the following hosts: