In this interview, Patrick Gray of Risky Business , the official podcast of AusCERT ’08, asks Arbor Networks’ Chief Research Officer about the Internet as critical infrastructure — as you’ll hear, he believes the way the Internet address space is configured gives the bad guys a little wiggle room when it comes to routing attacks. [...]
Well, I’m in the Red Carpet Club at LAX, just landed from SYD, after a trip there from Gold Coast, Australia and the AusCERT 2008 conference. This was my first AusCERT meeting, and I was there as an invited speaker, and found that the conference organizers did a great job. I quite enjoyed [...]
Greetings from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I’m here for the IMPACT Alliance summit. We’ve spent the past few days discussing strategy and approaches for combating global Internet, including cyber terrorism, fraud, and the like through coordinated international cooperation. There’s a lot of ground to break and a lot of challenges ahead, but everyone sees the [...]
The folks at Renesys pointed out earlier this week some interesting activity surrounding the L-root name server, highlighting some activity that should give us all yet another reason to be concerned about the security and integrity of the Internet DNS.
In short, L-root, operated by ICANN, was renumbered from 198.32.64.12 to 199.7.83.42. ICANN renumbered L-root [...]
Just a week after several DNS quirks cost YouTube some downtime, they appear to have added a great deal of redundancy to their previous setup, which left much to be desired. They’ve now got 7 authoritative servers listed, addressed from 3 discrete netblocks (64.15.112.0/20, 208.117.224.0/19 and 208.65.152.0/22, the latter was the original), the zone [...]
