Router security in 2021
Guest Post: Cybercriminals now see home routers as gateways to corporate networks, and companies as potential attack vectors.
Tag: DDoS
Industry, popularity effect if customers leave cloud providers following a DDoS attack outage
Guest Post: More popular websites are more likely to make changes to their name server records following a DDoS attack on their cloud provider.
Can we provide SLOs in an open Internet in a scalable manner?
Guest Post: New routing method uses bandwidth reservations, improving speed and security to meet service-level objectives.
Stopping DNS-based DDoS attacks in their tracks
Guest Post: Researchers propose a mechanism for DNS servers to independently determine a client’s preferred protocol.
DNS vulnerability, configuration errors can cause DDoS
Guest Post: An overlooked DNS vulnerability that, when combined with a configuration error, is leading to massive DNS traffic surges.
Event Wrap: KHNOG 3
APNIC staff presented on IPv6, and DDoS prevention at KHNOG 3, held online on 4 December 2021.
ICARUS: Beware of flying satellites
Guest Post: How resilient are LEO satellite networks to DDoS attacks?
Evaluation of anti-DDoS features in full-service resolvers
Guest Post: Simulating a DDoS attack, Japanese researchers tested a full-service resolver configured with both fetch-limit and serve-stale enabled.
Weaponizing middleboxes for TCP reflected amplification
Guest Post: Researchers show how middleboxes and censorship infrastructure can be abused to launch reflected DoS amplification attacks over TCP.
Another DNS OARC meeting
Geoff shares his thoughts on what was being discussed the recent OARConline 35a.