How to: Set up a testbed for validating RPKI/ROA using PMACCT and correlating traffic with BGP
Guest Post: Learn how RPKI can be set up on a testbed with PMACCT to collect and validate RPKI/ROA information.
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Why network engineers should code
Guest Post: The growing uptake of SDN is driving the need for network engineers to adapt or be left behind.
New IP and emerging communications technologies
What technologies will play a prominent role in the Internet over the next decade?
RHOMBUS: a new IoT malware
Guest Post: RHOMBUS is a new adaptation of the Mirai codebase with new methodologies to persist and drop different stages and updates, while also backdooring the instance.
NXNSAttack: upgrade resolvers to stop new kind of random subdomain attack
Guest Post: If you operate your own DNS resolver, no matter what brand it is, upgrade it to the latest version now!
Getting IPv6 private addressing right
Guest Post: Unique Local Unicast Addresses are another example of IPv6 being treated similarly as IPv4.
KISS your networks better
APNIC Trainers are always reminding those managing networks of the age-old principle to keep it simple, stupid.
SRv6 micro-instructions
Guest Post: An SRv6 extension enables up to six micro-instructions to be carried in each 16-byte instruction.
Cooperating and defending against COVID-19 scammers
Guest Post: The newly established COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition comprises thousands of independent and vendor information security researchers.
Measuring the benefits of registering in the RPKI
Guest Post: Study finds increase in RPKI filtering translates to a direct benefit for networks that register their prefixes in the RPKI.