RFC 7911 – What happens when routers do not speak the same language
To regularly analyze the behavior of global routing and the updates your BGP speaker is receiving, the Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) format reads, reviews, and stores this information in a…
The US FCC Asked About Routing Security. Here’s what MANRS Participants Had to Say.
This week, the Internet Society submitted comments in response to a United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on routing security. It asked about how data is…
Lesson Learned: Twitter Shored Up Its Routing Security
With so many eyes on networks and traffic flows around Ukraine and Russia, any misleading announcement is quickly investigated. That’s what happened yesterday, when AS8342 (RTComm) started announcing 104.244.42.0/24, a…
Did Ukraine suffer a BGP hijack and how can networks protect themselves?
On 15 February 2022, several high-level Ukrainian services including the Ministry of Defence and two large national banks were targeted with DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Financial services were…
BGP Security in 2021
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is central to how networks direct traffic across the Internet, and it provides the flexibility and scalability to accommodate Internet growth. However, like so many…
KlaySwap – Another BGP Hijack Targeting Crypto Wallets
It’s happened again. On 3 February, cryptocurrency platform KLAYswap had a security incident that allowed hackers to steal 2.2 billion (KRW), or about USD 1.9 million worth of digital (crypto…
The Routing Game: Hunting Invalid Routes
By Romain Fontugne, MANRS Fellow and Senior Researcher at Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) Research Lab In the past few years we have seen a substantial increase in the number of…
Facebook Has Good MANRS. Mistakes Still Happen.
A colleague calls his dad every afternoon, usually via WhatsApp. I bet you can see where this is going: Monday, he couldn’t reach him and got worried about what he…
New MANRS Program Gathers Network Equipment Vendors to Improve Internet Routing Security
Since 2014, MANRS has grown to include three programs, each contributing to routing security in its own way. Participants implement tailored, relevant actions that ultimately help defend the Internet against…