Getty Images reader comments 26 Orange España, Spain’s second-biggest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on Wednesday after an unknown party obtained a “ridiculously weak” password and used it to access an account for managing the global routing table that controls which networks deliver the company’s Internet traffic, researchers said. The hijacking began around 9:28 ..
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A widely used BGP implementation is affected by three vulnerabilities that can be exploited to cause disruption through denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, according to cybersecurity firm Forescout. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays an important role in the way the internet works. It serves as the main routing protocol, allowing autonomous systems (AS) — networks or ..
reader comments 41 with 34 posters participating Share this story Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to regain control, a lapse that allowed hackers to steal $235,000 in cryptocurrency from users of one of the affected customers, an analysis shows. The hackers ..
Getty Images reader comments 41 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM, ..
Enlarge / Today’s global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. reader comments 630 with 310 posters participating, including story author Share this story Original story 1:26 pm EDT: Facebook—and apparently all the major services Facebook owns—are down today. We ..
reader comments 111 with 74 posters participating Share this story The US Department of Defense puzzled Internet experts by apparently transferring control of tens of millions of dormant IP addresses to an obscure Florida company just before President Donald Trump left the White House, but the Pentagon has finally offered a partial explanation for why ..
reader comments 51 with 36 posters participating, including story author Share this story This is https://speed.gulag.link/, a speedtest application that demonstrates Roskomnadzor throttling to Russian users it impacts. Jim Salter This is the Google-translated version of the gulag.link screenshot to the left. Jim Salter Last night, a confidential source at a Russian ISP contacted Ars ..
Tommy Lee Walker | Getty Images reader comments 63 with 51 posters participating Share this story For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn’t a hack or a bug. It was problems with the internet data routing standard ..
reader comments 5 with 4 posters participating Share this story When my kids were younger, we used to tell them we were going to send them to “manners camp” if they didn’t behave properly at the dinner table. An Internet Society-supported initiative, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), has tried to coax Internet ..
Giu 10, 2019 Marco Schiaffino Gestione dati, In evidenza, Leaks, News, RSS, Scenario 0 L’errore è stato generato da un centro svizzero, che ha inviato a China Telecom circa 70.000 route di provider europei provocando malfunzionamenti e disagi. L’ennesimo cortocircuito nel sistema Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) ha provocato un “dirottamento” dei dati gestiti da alcuni ..