[194474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Financial services BGP hijack last week?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikos Leontsinis)
Tue May 2 08:11:58 2017
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From: Nikos Leontsinis <nikosietf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 08:29:32 +0100
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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it only proves the need for wider RPKI adoption....
On 2 May 2017 at 06:49, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> I didn't see any mention of this here. Any comments?
>
> "On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa,
> and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed
> through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances
> that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the
> most sensitive Internet communications."
>
> https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/russian-controlled-telecom-hijacks-financial-services-internet-traffic/
