It is the new year and, in our industry, you need to always be working on a new you. To help with that Kirk Byers offers an excellent free cource called Python for Network Engineers and the next round is kicking off on January 26, 2017. You can register for the course over at his […]
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This is among the largest rounds of funding we have seen since the beginning of 2016.
Distributed Denial of Service is a big deal—huge pools of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as security cameras, are compromised by botnets and being used for large scale DDoS attacks. What are the tools in hand to fend these attacks off? The first misconception is that you can actually fend off a DDoS attack. There is no magical tool you can deploy that will allow you to go to sleep every night thinking, “tonight my network will not be impacted by a DDoS attack.” There are tools and services that deploy various mechanisms that will do the engineering and work for you, but there is no solution for DDoS attacks.
One such reaction tool is spreading the attack. In the network below, the network under attack has six entry points.
Assume the attacker has IoT devices scattered throughout AS65002 which they are using to launch an attack. Due to policies within AS65002, the DDoS attack streams are being forwarded into AS65001, and thence to A and B. It would be easy to shut these two links down, forcing the traffic to disperse across five entries rather than two (B, C, D, E, and F). By splitting the Continue reading
The cuts will happen after the company's earnings on January 26.
Aryaka raises $45 million in a Series D round.
Recent submarine cable-related developments have impacted internet connectivity in locales as diverse as Vietnam, Cuba, India, the Marshall Islands and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. In this blog post, we report on positive developments in Cuba and Russia and a few notable cable failures in other parts of the world.
Vietnam
The internet of Vietnam got off to a shaky start in 2017 when, on 8 January, the America-Asia Gateway (AAG) submarine cable experienced yet another of its many failures. In September of last year, Tuoi Tre News reported that AAG had suffered its 10th failure in three years, prompting VietnamNet to ask the question: Why does the AAG underwater cable have to be repaired so often? Over the years, we have frequently analyzed these cable breaks. (For example, see this, this or this.)
Internet performance in Ho Chi Minh City suffers greatly during these unfortunate episodes. For Saigontourist Cable Television (SCTV), the recent break meant a brief disruption in connectivity and the loss of NTT transit as illustrated below.