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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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www.bgp.org
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| | | | | [AI summary] This blog post details vulnerabilities in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), specifically analyzing prefix hijack attacks, route leaks, and the potential for traffic manipulation across the internet. | |
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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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www.catchpoint.com
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| | | Explore how a real-world BGP blackholing incident disrupted global traffic and how external route monitoring detected the issue in real time through origin AS mismatch and prefix hijack alerts. | ||
