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blog.caida.org
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| | | | | [AI summary] Researchers propose a workflow to identify suspicious IRR records that could be exploited for BGP hijack attacks, highlighting inconsistencies and vulnerabilities in the IRR system despite its widespread use for routing security. | |
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networkphil.com
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| | | | | BGP is the de facto routing protocol for inter-domain routing, or in other words, the global internet. It's used to exchange routing information among autonomous systems around the entire world. Therefore, it's extremely important we do what we can to secure BGP communications, what we advertise, and the methods we use to create peering relationships.... | |
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nurkiewicz.com
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| | | | | Border Gateway Protocol, BGP for short, is probably the most important protocols you might have never heard of. Well, you did at least once, in October 2021. When Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger all went down because of BGP misconfiguration. Or that one day back in 2008 when all YouTube traffic was accidentally routed to Pakistan. Because of BGP... misconfiguration. So what's the big deal with BGP? First we must understand how the Internet works. | |
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berthub.eu
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| | | Note: For context, please see this article on the Economist Job. I also want to thank Job Snijders who was of great help in writing this article. How the Internet Leaks A few weeks ago large swathes of the internet stopped working around the world. The cause was quickly found: a computer networking mistake over at a specialty metals company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier that month, a similar accident took down payment terminals in The Netherlands because of a misconfiguration in a Swiss datacenter which rerouted key parts of the internet to China. | ||