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Image Credit, Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt from their paper: China’s Maxim – Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom’s BGP Hijacking

Image Credit, Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt from their paper: China’s Maxim – Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom’s BGP Hijacking

Of Course It Was Intentional (And Easy-Peazy, Too!)

November 07, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Espionage, BGP Routing Security, BGP Routing Insecurity

via Dan Goodin's, writing (and editing) at Ars Technica, comes his concise prose illustrating the 3rd level of hell that is BGP, plus an intentional espionage-like data gathering operation executing flawlessly for more than a calendar year by the People's Republic of China (PRC) (The evidence is thin, yet highly indicative of some level of foreknowledge (perhaps even Command and Control) by the Communist Chinese regime)). And, then there's this... All In All, Certainly A Caper Worth Concerted Investigation...

November 07, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Espionage, BGP Routing Security, BGP Routing Insecurity

ISOC Paper Targeting Border Gateway Protocol Routing And Trust

October 28, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Networks, Network Security, Information Security, BGP Routing Security

via Ryan Polk - policy advisor at the Internet Society (ISOC), comes this outstanding paper displaying admirably clear thinking applied to the challenge of security-in-internetwork-routing (especially when that security is encapsulated in BGP Routing). Enjoy!

October 28, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Networks, Network Security, Information Security, BGP Routing Security