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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Dec 6 13:05:43 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20131206173830.GL10793@leitl.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:05:54 -0500
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>=20
> =
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belarus-iceland/
>=20
> Someone=92s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the =
Internet
> ...
> In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference
> demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide =
internet
> traffic-routing system =97 a vulnerability so severe that it could =
allow
> intelligence agencies, corporate spies or criminals to intercept =
massive
> amounts of data, or even tamper with it on the fly.
...
Yes, nothing new to see here, networks don't do BGP filtering well, no =
Film at 11?
I've detected 11.6 million of these events since 2008 just looking at =
the
route-views data. Most recently the past two days 701 has done a large =
MITM of
traffic.
In other news, you can go read the other thread on this that happened =
already.
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-November/062257.html
- Jared
