Event Wrap: 31st Annual FIRST Conference
APNIC participated at the 31st Annual FIRST Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 16 to 21 June 2019.
Tag: security
Advanced Blackholing at Internet Exchange Points
Remote Triggered Blackholing has major limitations when applied at Internet Exchange Points.
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.
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.
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.
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.