Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small ISP in Pennsylvania, USA.
Large European Routing Leak Sends Traffic Through China Telecom
Beginning at 09:43 UTC today (6 June 2019), Swiss data center colocation company Safe Host (AS21217) leaked over 70,000 routes to China Telecom (AS4134) in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Public DNS in Taiwan the latest victim to BGP hijack
Yet another incident of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack, with the latest victim this time in Taiwan.
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Route Leak Causes Major Google Outage
By Aftab Siddiqui, Technical Engagement Manager for Asia-Pacific Google recently faced a major outage in many parts of the world thanks to a BGP leak.
MANRS, IXPs, and Routing Security in the News
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for routing security. First, on 23 April, we introduced a new category of MANRS participants aimed specifically at Internet Exchange Points.
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A Deeper Dive into the Amazon Route 53 BGP Hijack
Yesterday, we reported some initial news and details about the Amazon Route 53 BGP hijack that resulted in a loss to some cryptocurrency users.
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Another BGP Hijacking Event Highlights the Importance of MANRS and Routing Security
Another BGP hijacking event is in the news today. This time, the event is affecting the Ethereum cryptocurrency. (Read more about it here, or here.) Users were faced with an insecure SSL certificate.
14,000 Incidents: a 2017 Routing Security Year in Review
How was the state of the Internet’s routing system in 2017? Let’s take a look back using data from BGPStre
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Another BGP Routing Incident Highlights an Internet Without Checkpoints
Yesterday, there were two BGP routing incidents in which several high-profile sites (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitch, NTT Communications and Riot Games) were rerouted to a previously unused Russian AS.
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