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…
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…
Route Leak Causes Major Google Outage
Google recently faced a major outage in many parts of the world thanks to a BGP leak. This incident that was caused by a Nigerian ISP – Mainone – occurred on…
MANRS in the news: Oracle ‘net-watcher agrees, China Telecom is a repeat offender for misdirecting traffic
This article was written by Richard Chirgwin and originally published at The Register website. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and…
CAIDA Spoofer Project Improves Routing Security by Publicizing Spoofed Source Address Packets
This week, the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) announced that: "In response to feedback from operational security communities, CAIDA's source address validation measurement project is automatically generating monthly…
Another BGP Hijacking Event Highlights the Importance of MANRS and Routing Security
Another BGP hijacking event is in the news today. This time, the event is affecting the Ethereum cryptocurrency. (Read more about it here, or here.) Users were faced…
Network operators are invited to participate in the survey on BGP prefix hijacking
BGP prefix hijacking remains a problem for Internet routing, despite the (partial) use of RPKI or detection services. In order to better understand the existing BGP hijacking defenses and the…