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Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic
- OscarTheGrinch 9y agoWhats it going to take it get Russia cut off from the rest of the internet?
- OscarTheGrinch 9y agoWhats it going to take it get Russia cut off from the rest of the internet?
- coderholic 9y agoHere are more details on the AS that's doing the hijacking: http://ipinfo.io/AS12389 http://ipinfo.io/AS12389 They have 78 other ASNs too (search for Rostelecom at http://ipinfo.io/countries/ru http://ipinfo.io/countries/ru)
- NelsonMinar 9y agoBGP is extraordinarily vulnerable. The last paragraph of this article does a good job highlighting the risks of the status quo. "Such hijacks underscore the implicit trust governments and corporations all over the world place in BGP routing announcements. For years, engineers have proposed a variety of measures to ensure service providers can announce only those networks they're authorized to carry. At the moment, however, there is no authoritative way to do so. Dyn, BGPmon, and similar services do a good job detecting when unauthorized announcements are made, but those detections inevitably come after improper redirections or hijackings have already occurred"