It’s that time again! Arbor Networks is opening its 12th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report survey. Findings from this survey are compiled and analyzed to provide insights on a comprehensive range of issues from threat detection and incident response to staffing, budgets and partner relationships. A copy […]
Read moreOn 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry […]
Read moreThe success of the Tunisian and Egyptian protest movements inspired demonstrations throughout the Middle East last week, including large-scale social media coordinated protests in Libya, Iran, Bahrain, Algeria, Jordan and Yemen. In several of countries, governments responded to the calls for reform with arrests and […]
Read moreUpdated January 31: Added graph and discussion of remaining active paths Following a week of growing protests and periodic telecommunication disruption, Egypt suddenly lost all Internet connectivity at approximately 5:20pm EST Thursday. The below graph shows traffic to and from Egypt based on ATLAS data […]
Read moreMy blog post last week on the April 8th China BGP hijack incident generated significant discussion and raised additional questions in both the media and research / engineering community. In particular, I agree with Dmitri Alperovitch’s recent McAfee blog post that “This topic is highly […]
Read moreOn Wednesday, the US China Economic and Security Review Commission released a wide-ranging report on China trade, capital markets, human rights, WTO compliance, and other topics. If you have time to spare, here is a link to the 324 page report. Tucked away in the […]
Read moreBack in 2007, the Burmese government reportedly severed the country’s Internet links in a crackdown over growing political unrest. Yesterday, Burma once again fell off the Internet. Over the last several days, a rapidly escalating, large-scale DDoS has targeted Burma’s main Internet provider, the Ministry […]
Read moreAnother Facebook outage, an outpouring of tweets, press articles and an obligatory ATLAS post below. We use ATLAS data to graph Facebook (AS32934) traffic with 80 ISPs around the world between 5pm September 22 and 5pm EDT today. You can see Facebook traffic plummet around […]
Read moreMore political attacks seen around the world, this time in Malaysia. Voices that appear to be critical to the Malaysian government have had their websites, used for communicating with the outside world, attacked in a flurry of DDoS attacks. We’ve been investigating these and have […]
Read moreMy blog post last month on the rapid growth of Google generated a bit of discussion around Google and its competitors. In particular, this Wired article (“Google’s Traffic Is Giant”) suggests Google’s infrastructure should “frighten the world’s current ISPs” and content distributors (i.e. CDNs like […]
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