Honeypot-based monitoring of amplification DDoS attacks
Guest Post: The SISSDEN project operates a network of honeypots that detect on average around 10,000 amplification DDoS attacks per day.
Tag: security
Monitoring BGP anomalies on the Internet
Guest Post: There are many common sources for BGP anomalies of which network operators should be aware.
IETF 102: An update on securing BGP
Geoff Huston analyses the current state of BGP security mechanisms based on his observations at the IETF 102 meeting.
Pacific approach towards cybersecurity
Guest Post: Building capacity and cooperation among smaller island economies to address cybersecurity challenges.
ARTEMIS — neutralizing BGP hijacking within a minute
Guest Post: ARTEMIS is a new defence system for network operators that can reduce BGP hijack detection and mitigation times from hours/days to a few seconds or minutes.
Event Wrap: 30th Annual FIRST Conference and AGM
The 30th Annual FIRST Conference and Annual General Meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 24 to 29 June 2018.
Shutting down the BGP Hijack Factory
Guest Post: Read how one email to a NOG mailing list led to a concerted effort to kick a notorious BGP hijacker off the Internet.
BGP flexibility and its consequences
Guest Post: Study seeks to determine the scale of BGP hijacking threats by measuring the number of ingress filters bypassed by routing anomalies.
Busy six months ends in CERT Vanuatu launch
Pacific cybersecurity has received another boost with the launch of Vanuatu’s Computer Emergency Response Team.
New tools help detect and analyse BGP hijacks
The designers of RTBADT (Real Time BGP Anomaly Detection Tool) used a new technique to detect BGP anomalies in a matter of seconds.