For those of you not paying attention, a slew of new instabilities in the global routing system are occurring – again. These are presumably being tickled by another ugly AS4_PATH tunnel bug where someone [read: broken implementation] erroneously includes AS_CONFED_* segments in an AS4_PATH attribute – a transitive optional BGP attribute that’s essentially ‘tunneled’ between [...]
As founder and CTO of Ellacoya Networks, a pioneer in DPI, and now having spent the last year at Arbor, a pioneer in network-based security, I have witnessed first hand the evolution of Deep Packet Inspection. It has evolved from a niche traffic management technology to an integrated service delivery platform. Once relegated to the [...]
(SOURCE Boston 2009) Botnets are being used more frequently to silence political dissenters, explains Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks. Nazario has been studying the rise of botnets as a tool used in cyberwarfare.
It’s already been over 2 years ago since we first introduced our Active Threat Level Analysis System – ATLAS, a multiphase project that’s been evolving pretty much constantly ever since. The first phase of ATLAS focused on capturing data via a globally scoped network of sensors running a number of data capture and analysis tools [...]
Or is it too early to tell?
I suspect that things like this are always best determined long after they’ve happened. The bottom of a recession or the top of the bubble, the end or even just the beginning. But we’ve seen Conficker numbers host steady at ~3 million unique IPs a day for the past [...]
