Submission + - Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic (threatpost.com) 1

Submitted by msm1267 on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:54PM

msm1267 writes: Attackers are using route injection attacks against BGP-speaking routers to insert additional hops in the traffic stream, redirecting traffic to third-party locations where it can be inspected before it’s sent to its destination.
Internet intelligence company Renesys has detected close to 1,500 IP address blocks that have been hijacked on more than 60 days this year, a disturbing trend that indicates attackers could finally have an increased interest in weaknesses inherent in core Internet infrastructure.

Submission + - Libyan Internet flatlined, 2 .ly name servers down (google.com)

Submitted by

dnsdude

on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:05PM

dnsdude writes: "Libya has turned of the Internet, with the result being that two (out of 5) .ly name servers are now unreachable.

The .ly name servers are reached in round-robin fashion, so roughly 2 out of 5 queries around the world will timeout.

Hope you're enjoying your .ly domain names!"

Submission + - Afghan Government Turns to Iran for Internet (renesys.com)

Submitted by Barlaam on Saturday September 18, 2010 @10:18AM

Barlaam writes: Renesys describes new evidence that the Iranian national telecommunications provider, DCI, is selling (uncensored?) Internet connectivity to customers in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan:

"The Internet connectivity outreach that we now see in the global routing tables seems like continuing evidence of Iran's long-term strategy: aggressively pursuing bilateral infrastructure and investment projects with its neighbors, in ways that will increase Iran's regional influence after the Americans have moved on."

Comment Re:Summary is misleading (Score 1) 3

by Barlaam on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:37AM (#31112744) Attached to: Russia Provides Internet Transit to Iranian Regime

The summary is just a quote from the article. I think the point of TFA was that Iran needed more transit diversity ahead of possible US military action, and the Russians were happy to oblige. Diversity is the name of the game.

Submission + - Startup threatened into settling over hyperlinking

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 21, 2009 @08:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: A tiny startup that was threatened by a massive law firm over nothing more than a humble hyperlink has been forced to settle and change its linking policies, handing Goliath the win in this gratuitous trademark case. Under the agreement, real estate startup BlockShopper can no longer include hyperlinks anywhere on its website to Jones Day, a massive Chicago law firm, except explicitly on URL text. Essentially, jonesday.com is okay, but not blah blah blah. Rest of the story here

Submission + - Router Vendor Omits Range Check, Crashes Internet (renesys.com)

Submitted by Barlaam on Saturday February 21, 2009 @07:45PM

Barlaam writes: A bug by router vendor A (omitting a range check from a critical field in the configuration interface) tickled a bug from router vendor B (dropping BGP sessions when processing some ASPATH attributes with length very close to 256), causing a ripple effect that caused widespread global routing instability last week. The flaw lay dormant until one of vendor A's systems was deployed in an autonomous system whose ASN, modulo 256, was greater than 250. At that point, the Internet was one typo away from disaster. Other router vendors, who were not affected by the bug, happily propagated the trigger message to every vulnerable system on the planet in about 30 seconds. Few people appreciate how fragile and unsecured the Internet's trust-based critical infrastructure really is — this is just the latest example.

Comment Re:The internet is broken right now !! (Score 1) 149

by Barlaam on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @09:06PM (#7564383) Attached to: Blackout Worse For Internet Than Previously Thought?

There's an ongoing problem with Segment I of the TAT-14 undersea cable. It started around 15:38 GMT and affects traffic to various sites in Europe. One of the landing sites is at Katwijk NL.

Here's a map.