Last week, the IP address space belonging to several high-profile companies, including Google, Facebook and Apple, was briefly announced out of Russia, as was first reported by BGPmon.
Following the incident, Job Snijders of NTT wrote in a post entitled, “What to do about BGP hijacks”. He stated that, given the inherent security weaknesses in BGP, things will only improve “the moment it becomes socially unacceptable to operate an Internet network without adequate protections in place” and thus customers would stop buying transit from providers that operate without proper route filtering.
Since Job has presented at NANOG about the various filtering methods employed by NTT, I decided to look into how well NTT (AS2914) did in this particular incident. While a handful of the 80 misdirected routes were ultimately carried on by AS2914 to the greater internet, NTT didn’t contribute to the leaking of any of the major internet companies, such as Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. In fact, when one analyzes the propagation of every one of these leaked routes, a pattern begins to emerge.
Route Leaks by AS39523
On 12 December 2017, AS39523 announced 80 prefixes (only one of which was theirs) for two different 3-4 Continue reading
The project brings together data scientists and software engineers.
Because this is the last “weekend reads” of the year, I’m supersizing it, and including a few articles at the end on culture I found interesting. The majority of the other stories relate to security, as always.
GPS has become such an ingrained part of our culture that many of us don’t even think about it anymore. If you want to go check out a new restaurant but don’t know where it is, search for it in Google Maps. Want to map your Continue reading
Dell EMC continues to lead the HCI vendor market, according to IDC.
Qualcomm rejects Broadcom board nominees; Ericsson, Vodafone complete pre-standard 5G test; CENX signs Open API Manifesto.
Schmidt joined the company in 2001 when it only had a few hundred employees.
This is Microsoft's second price cut this year.
The software provider is offering RMM and Helpdesk services to its customers.
During 2017 Cloudflare published 172 blog posts (including this one). If you need a distraction from the holiday festivities at this time of year here are some highlights from the year.
The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack
We worked closely with companies across the industry to track and take down the Android WireX Botnet. This blog post goes into detail about how that botnet operated, how it was distributed and how it was taken down.
Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production
The wall of Lava Lamps in the San Francisco office is used to feed entropy into random number generators across our network. This blog post explains how.
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison
Our network of data centers around the world all contain Intel-based servers, but we're interested in ARM-based servers because of the potential cost/power savings. This blog post took a look at the relative performance of Intel processors and Qualcomm's latest server offering.
How to Monkey Patch the Linux Kernel
One engineer wanted to combine the Dvorak and QWERTY keyboard layouts and did so by patching the Linux kernel using SystemTap. This blog explains Continue reading
During 2017 Cloudflare published 172 blog posts (including this one). If you need a distraction from the holiday festivities at this time of year here are some highlights from the year.
The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack
We worked closely with companies across the industry to track and take down the Android WireX Botnet. This blog post goes into detail about how that botnet operated, how it was distributed and how it was taken down.
Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production
The wall of Lava Lamps in the San Francisco office is used to feed entropy into random number generators across our network. This blog post explains how.
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison
Our network of data centers around the world all contain Intel-based servers, but we're interested in ARM-based servers because of the potential cost/power savings. This blog post took a look at the relative performance of Intel processors and Qualcomm's latest server offering.
How to Monkey Patch the Linux Kernel
One engineer wanted to combine the Dvorak and QWERTY keyboard layouts and did so by patching the Linux kernel using SystemTap. This blog explains Continue reading
Season’s greetings from Cumulus Networks! We wish you all the happiest of holidays and hope they lead into a fantastic new year.
But before we take off for our holiday break, we’ve got one more present for you — a Facebook Backpack Chassis! Well, a video of a Facebook Backpack Chassis. Pour yourself a mug of hot chocolate and prepare yourself for some laughs as we unwrap this exciting new addition to our data center. Check it out:
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Interop ITX research reveals enterprise storage and networking plans for the year ahead.
We need more SD-WAN vendors to write about (and also new socks).