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.
APNIC Foundation reports fund raising successes and major project impacts
The Board of the APNIC Foundation held its second annual meeting in Singapore in May.
NOGs are not just for network operators working for large ISPs
Guest Post: Network Operator Group meetings are as much about connecting with your peers as they are the presentations.
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.
Internet Tools BoF discovers common challenges for network operators
Sofia Silva Berenguer recently co-organized the Internet Tools BoF at LACNIC 31.
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.