Shaping the Internet: History and impact of IXP growth
Guest Post: IXPs have had a clear impact in reducing paths and dependence on Tier-1 transit providers.
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Tech matters
Putting a stop to Internet time shifters
Guest Post: New Network Time Protocol client secures against time shifting by man-in-the-middle attackers.
One in four Google Public DNS requests are being intercepted in China: report
Guest Post: Have you ever considered when you use Google DNS as your resolver, whether your queries may be answered by somebody else?
The drawbacks of blackholing
Guest Post: Study seeks to understand how blackholing is used following DDoS attacks to improve mitigation techniques.
Excessive BGP AS-PATH prepending is a self-inflicted vulnerability
Guest Post: Prepending-to-all is a self-inflicted and needless risk that serves little purpose.
It’s time to consider avoiding IP fragmentation in the DNS
Guest Post: Avoiding the use of IP fragmentation in the DNS can assist with reducing the risk of DNS cache poisoning attacks.
Long chopsticks in heaven: the importance of cooperating when it comes to ROAs
Guest Post: It’s important for those wanting to deploy ROAs that they know how to do it and maintain them correctly.
How to: Analysing packet captures with Security Onion
This ‘how to’ explains the process of using Security Onion’s tools to analyse a packet capture, then extract and examine a potentially malicious file.
Whither DANE?
Guest Post: DANE has reached an impasse in web deployment – so where to from here?
Forcing attackers to be 100% right
Guest Post: With some tweaks to how we approach network security, we can tip the balance back in the favour of defenders.