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Open source BGP implementation FRRouting is affected by three vulnerabilities that can be exploited to cause disruption via DoS attacks.
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In response to low-hanging fruit attacks (accounts creation, image sending etc.) which request rates goes below our rate-limiting rules and are not blocked, we started blocking AS numbers from countries in which we do not operate. We start… Continue reading Is blocking Autonomous Systems numbers in the firewall a good practice?
Last week we covered the Symbiote Rootkit, based on the excellent work by Blackberry, Intezer, and Cyber Geeks. This particular piece of malware takes some particularly clever and devious steps …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Symbiote Research and Detection, Routing Hijacks, Bruggling, and More
The massive October 4th Facebook outage was not due to a breach and was not classified as a security issue. But the fact that it went down — and was inaccessible for an extended period — is itself a security concern that the enterprise must address. That security concern is business continuity. According to […]
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Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s largest companies — just by spoofing an email. This is the nature of a threat vector recently removed by a Fortune 500 firm that operates one of the world’s largest Internet backbones. Continue reading The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
We have to admit, it was hard not to be insufferably smug this week when Facebook temporarily went dark around the globe. Sick of being stalked by crazy aunts and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 10, 2021
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Continue reading What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?
I’m living in a very evil country and don’t trust my ISP or the government. Moreover the country has control of several root and probably more intermediate certificate authorities. What options do I have as a normal end user with a DSL or … Continue reading Protecting against BGP hijacking
I was reading about The Hacking Team on Wikipedia. It produces "offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities" and sells it to "to governments, law enforcement agencies". Its spyware allows governments "to moni… Continue reading Why governments use spywares instead of just redirecting traffic to their own servers by announcing a new path on BGP?
Our own [Pat Whetman] wrote about a clever technique published by the University of Michigan, where lasers can be used to trigger a home assistant device. It’s an interesting hack, and you should go read it.
We’ve lived through several IPv4 exhaustion milestones, and the lack of …read more
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