Month: March 2009
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 […]
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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 […]
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(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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Friday and today I got a very interesting URL highlighted by our spam traps. The URL looks like a JPG, and so I went to see what it was. I figured it’d be stock spam or pill spam or something. What I didn’t expect was […]
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