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Why attack DNS? BGP is more vulnerable and receives less scrutiny (remember Pakistan bringing youtube down for the entire world via a misconfigured censorship a

Why attack DNS? BGP is more vulnerable and receives less scrutiny (remember Pakistan bringing youtube down for the entire world via a misconfigured censorship attempt?). Go look at the references from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking for some horror stories.

getsat 15y ago
L0pht testified before Congress claiming that they could shut down the Internet globally in 30 minutes back in 1998. If I recall correctly, it was through attacks against BGP/BGMP. I can't find a non-broken source link, though.
- aw3c2 15y ago
  Should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY
  - getsat 15y ago
    Awesome! Thanks for this link.
  - ljd 15y ago
    The intro where they used their hacker names made it worth it.
almost_usual 15y ago
You could at least attack some of the major ASes. http://www.routeviews.org/ http://www.routeviews.org/
eridius 15y ago
I thought the vulnerability that Pakistan unwittingly exploited was already fixed?