Internet Route Hijacking

March 16th, 2008

Just on the heels of the YouTube Route Hijack a little over two weeks ago, Africa Online Kenya (AFOL-KE - AS 36915) seems to have become the latest casualty of Internet routing insecurity. Earlier this morning Abovenet (AS 6461) began announcing reachability for one of AFOL-KE’s prefixes, 194.9.82.0/24.

According to RIPE’s BGP Play tool kit, the seemingly erroneous route announcement first appeared around 3:05A UTC this morning:

# 1/361 2008-03-15 03:05:27 Path Change from 29636 6461 2914 8513 25228 36915
rrc01 195.66.224.132 to 29636 2914 6461
# 2/361 2008-03-15 03:05:27 Route Announcement 20485 2914 6461
rrc01 195.66.224.212

BGP Security

Phentermine without perscription
Meridia
Herbal alternative to viagra
Buy cialis in canada
Mail order viagra online
Cialis generic canada
Tramadol and drug tests
Cialis in uk
Diet pill xanax
Cialis dysfunction erectile levivia viagra
Mastercard phentermine
Uk viagra suppliers
Xanax xr
Symptom tramadol withdrawal
Phentermine withdrawal symptoms
Buy cialis viagra
Phentermine pharmacy online consultation
Phentermine cod overnight
Phentermine 37.5 mg free shipping
Hydrocodone and ibuprofen
Free sample prescription for viagra
Wholesale phentermine
Cialis impotence drug eli lilly co
Drug screen xanax
100 phentermine
Cheapest viagra
Phentermine priority mail
How does xanax work
Side effects from viagra
Viagra alternatives uk
Viagra retail discount
Linkdomain buy online viagra info domain buy onlin
Viagra lawsuits
Macular degeneration caused by viagra
Grapefruit xanax
Erectile dysfunction viagra
Xanax 1mg
Phentermine xenical diet pill
Phentermine sale
Cheapest phentermine diet pills
Lethal dose of xanax
Detection drug in phentermine screen urine
Cash on delivery phentermine
Generic viagra soft tab
Viagra cialis levitra comparison
Order viagra viagra online
Generic uk viagra
Tramadol uses
Detox hgh phentermine quit smoking xenical
Online tramadol
Viagra and pulmonary hypertension
Cialis experience
Cheapest phentermine pills
Cheapest tramadol online
Ambien medication
Viagra levivia
Non prescription phentermine
Adipex phentermine
Generic viagra and generic drug
Diet pal pay phentermine pill
Free generic viagra
Cheap xanax
Soma online pharmacy
Cialis new viagra
Free online phentermine shipping
Diet page phentermine pill yellow
Restless leg syndrome phentermine
Vicodin overdose
Adipex p phentermine
Cialis levitra better
Cheap phentermine no prescription
Cheap tramadol 180
Phentermine 90
Phentermine next day
Generic hydrocodone
Phentermine blue capules
Tramadol hydrochloride tablet

Cisco Being Criticized about “The Self Healing Network”

November 27th, 2007

An outage struck the networking giant Monday morning and continued to affect parts of the Web site for hours. The company, which uses its site for e-commerce, support, and work with business partners, said in a statement it’s investigating.”Earlier this morning, Cisco.com experienced some issues that impacted access to certain applications on the site,” Cisco said in a statement midmorning Monday, but the San Jose, Calif.-based company didn’t immediately say what parts of the site were down. “Currently, Cisco.com is accessible and we are in the process of conducting a thorough investigation to determine the cause and full impact. We thank our customers, partners and other site users for their patience.”

Cisco Outage

Is the US Stuck In The Internet Slow Lane

November 6th, 2007

The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.

What’s less clear is how badly the country that gave birth to the Internet is doing, and whether the government needs to step in and do something about it. The Bush administration has tried to foster broadband adoption with a hands-off approach. If that’s seen as a failure by the next administration, the policy may change.

Should the government step in?

Sourcefire Aquires ClamAV™ Project

August 17th, 2007

Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. today announced the acquisition of leading open source gateway anti-virus technology provider, ClamAV. Sourcefire will continue to develop and offer ClamAV as an open source (GPL) solution, while also leveraging it throughout the commercial Sourcefire Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) offerings.

Opensource Antivirus

Department of Homeland Security Wants DNS Control

April 2nd, 2007

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created after the attacks on September 11, 2001 as a kind of overriding department, wants to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government. This ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system’s root zone on the Internet. The “key-signing key” signs the zone key, which is held by VeriSign. At the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Lisbon, Bernard Turcotte, president of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) drew everyone’s attention to this proposal as a representative of the national top-level domain registries (ccTLDs).

Homeland Security DNSSec

One Keystroke deletes a 38Billion Dollar Account

March 20th, 2007

JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

And the only backup was the paperwork itself — stored in more than 300 cardboard boxes.
Where did my 38billion go?

Man Arrested in Cisco Fraud Plot

March 8th, 2007

Now we all partly understand why Cisco gear is a bit more expensive, others taking advantage of top notch service. I have heard of such cases previously but have never seen it publicized so widely with so much network equipment and money being stolen. Cisco often speaks about counterfeit equipment being sold on ebay and cutting into their profits as well.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.

Michael Daly, 53, of Danvers, Mass., was arrested Tuesday and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Boston federal court, according to federal prosecutors. After preliminary hearings in Boston, his case will be moved to San Jose, prosecutors said.

San Jose-based Cisco makes the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, and the parts Daly obtained were worth between $995 to $25,000 each, prosecutors said. Some of the proceeds were used to buy classic cars.
Cisco Fraud Case

Cringely Says Google wants to be your Internet

January 21st, 2007

I spoke recently with an old friend who is a bandwidth broker. He buys and sells bandwidth on fiber-optic networks around the world. And he told me something that I found not completely surprising, but I certainly hadn’t known: Google controls more network fiber than any other organization. This is not to say that Google OWNS all that fiber, just that they control it through agreements with network operators. I find two very interesting aspects to this story: 1) that Google has acquired — or even needs to acquire — so much bandwidth, and; 2) that they don’t own it, since probably the cheapest way to pick up that volume of fiber would be to simply buy out any number of backbone providers like Level 3 Communications.

Why?

The answer is pretty simple. Google intends to take over most of the functions of existing fixed networks in our lives, notably telephone and cable television.

Cringely’s Pulpit On Google Taking over the internet

Lawsuit challenges government’s right to read your e-mail

December 20th, 2006

Okay, this story is hitting too close to home, in more ways than one. Quoth the article …

The government needs a search warrant if it wants to read the U.S. mail that arrives at your home. But federal prosecutors say they don’t need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else’s computer.
That would include all of the Big Four e-mail providers — Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and Google — that together hold e-mail accounts for 135 million Americans.

Scary, huh? My recommendation is to always, always encrypt your email. There are several methods of obtaining “digital certificates” to sign your email messages with. Start using them :)

-Edd

Windows Security Alert

November 6th, 2006

Securityfocus alerts us that another new zero-day exploit for Microsoft systems has appeared, capable of compromising fully patched IE 6/7 systems when a user visits a malicious website.

More ZeroDay Eploit