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 ..
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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, ..
reader comments 71 with 40 posters participating, including story author Share this story Citing the misrouting of US Internet traffic, malicious hacking, and control by the Chinese government, a group of US executive agencies is recommending the FCC revoke the license authorizing China Telecom to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States. ..
Enlarge / A graphical depiction of Thursday’s BGP leak. reader comments 107 with 59 posters participating Share this story Traffic destined for some of Europe’s biggest mobile providers was misdirected in a roundabout path through the Chinese-government-controlled China Telecom on Thursday, in some cases for more than two hours, an Internet-monitoring service reported. It’s the ..
Aurich / Getty reader comments 39 with 31 posters participating Share this story Over the past decade, many attackers have exploited design weaknesses in the Internet’s global routing system. Most commonly, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is abused to divert gigabytes, or possibly even petabytes, of high-value traffic to ISPs inside Russia or China, sometimes ..
reader comments 88 Share this story Amazon lost control of a small number of its cloud services IP addresses for two hours on Tuesday morning when hackers exploited a known Internet-protocol weakness that let them to redirect traffic to rogue destinations. By subverting Amazon’s domain-resolution service, the attackers masqueraded as cryptocurrency website MyEtherWallet.com and stole ..