BGP secure routing experiment ends in online row
An experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it last week. Continue reading BGP secure routing experiment ends in online row
Category Archives: Border Gateway Protocol
China’s cyber-espionage against U.S. is ‘more audacious,’ NSA official says amid Huawei flap
The U.S. government again is concerned about Chinese cyber-operations, a senior National Security Agency official said Tuesday amid ongoing news about possible vulnerabilities in widely used technology. “We have to worry about national security,” Rob Joyce, a senior adviser for cybersecurity strategy at NSA, said Tuesday at a Wall Street Journal event in New York. “We’ve been strong and consistent in saying we have some specific concerns about supply chain risks and ways nations may take advantage of that.” Joyce was referring to heightened international scrutiny around the Chinese technology giant Huawei. Canadian authorities this month arrested Meng Wangzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, on suspicion of violation U.S. sanctions. Officials in the U.S., U.K., Australia and elsewhere have warned that Huawei’s ties with the Chinese government, combined with widespread adoption of the company’s technology, could result in espionage opportunities for Beijing. Western officials have not revealed any evidence proving such […]
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Google’s G Suite, Search and Analytics Taken Down in Hijacking
Google cloud business customers were impacted by a Border Gateway Protocol hijacking. Continue reading Google’s G Suite, Search and Analytics Taken Down in Hijacking
China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance. Continue reading China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
Becoming Your Own ISP, Just for Fun
When moving into a new house, it’s important to arrange for the connection of basic utilities. Electricity, water, and gas are simple enough, and then it’s generally fairly easy to set up a connection to an ISP for your internet connection. A router plugs into a phone line, or maybe a fiber connection and lovely packets start flowing out of the wall. But if you’re connected to the internet through an ISP, how is the ISP connected? [Kenneth] answers this in the form of an amusing tale.
It was during the purchase of data centre rack space that [Kenneth]’s challenge …read more
Cisco Patches DoS Flaw in BGP over Ethernet VPN Implementation
Cisco has updated its IOS XE software to address a denial of service vulnerability in its implementation of BGP over an Ethernet VPN. Continue reading Cisco Patches DoS Flaw in BGP over Ethernet VPN Implementation
Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic
Visa, MasterCard, and Symantec among dozens affected by “suspicious” BGP mishap. Continue reading Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic
DDoS Mitigation Firm Has History of Hijacks
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet addresses from a European Internet service provider in order to glean information about attackers who were targeting BackConnect. According to an exhaustive analysis of historic Internet records, the BackConnect appears to have a history of such “hacking back” activity. Continue reading DDoS Mitigation Firm Has History of Hijacks