Collaborate Disseminate
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
Continue reading This Week in Security: BGP Bogons, Chrome Zero Day, and Save Game Attacks
The new law compels the country’s ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from their networks through special gateway servers. Continue reading Russia’s sovereign internet law comes into force
This is interesting research: In a BGP hijack, a malicious actor convinces nearby networks that the best path to reach a specific IP address is through their network. That’s unfortunately not very hard to do, since BGP itself doesn’t have any security procedures for validating that a message is actually coming from the place it says it’s coming from. […]… Continue reading Using Machine Learning to Detect IP Hijacking
This is interesting research: In a BGP hijack, a malicious actor convinces nearby networks that the best path to reach a specific IP address is through their network. That’s unfortunately not very hard to do, since BGP itself doesn’t have any security … Continue reading Using Machine Learning to Detect IP Hijacking
Hijacking IP addresses is an increasingly popular form of cyberattack. This is done for a range of reasons, from sending spam and malware to stealing Bitcoin. It’s estimated that in 2017 alone, routing incidents such as IP hijacks affected more than 10… Continue reading Researchers may have found a way to trace serial IP hijackers
The Let’s Encrypt upcoming features page lists the following:
Multi-Perspective Validation
Currently Let’s Encrypt validates from a single network perspective.
We are planning to start validating from multiple netw… Continue reading What is Multi-Perspective Validation?
How can the BGP protocol be adapted to MANET networks, And is there a mechanism for the security?
Continue reading Security and adaptation BGP on MANET network
Is it possible that one AS can sniff another peer’s traffic?
Continue reading Is it possible that a Peer AS over BGP can sniff other AS traffic?