DHS wants help to identify, attribute major web outages
The Department of Homeland Security wants help identifying, attributing and combatting major internet outages and disruptions — and it will pay. Last week, at an industry day and in solicitation documents posted online, the department’s Science and Technology Directorate invited research proposals under its “Predict, Assess Risk, Identify (and Mitigate) Disruptive Internet-scale Network Events,” or PARIDINE. These large-scale internet outages or slowdowns can have many causes, explained PARIDINE program manager Ann Cox — from natural disasters like hurricanes or tsunamis, to accidents that can knock out physical infrastructure, through geo-political events like a country trying to cut itself off from the internet, to the mass-scale re-routing of internet traffic. Large-scale re-routing incidents can happen by accident; but they can also be caused by malicious actors using a technique called border gateway protocol, or BGP, hijacking. On Twitter, security analyst Richard Bejtlich called BGP hijacking, “Probably[the] biggest Internet weakness hardly any[one] knows/cares about.” […]
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