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…
Another BGP Incident Impacts TWC, Rogers, Charter and Others
Just like an incident last week, today the Internet saw another routing incident in the global BGP routing system. Here we will dig into today’s incident and – once…
Not just another BGP Hijack
On 1 April 2020, many networks witnessed a massive BGP hijack by AS12389 (Rostelecom). In this post, we’ll dig into the details of this routing incident and explain why…
Public DNS in Taiwan the latest victim to BGP hijack
Yet another incident of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack, with the latest victim this time in Taiwan. Earlier this month (May 8), traffic going through a public DNS run by…