An interesting article about the cyber was which hit Estonia in 2007: http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/gjia/v9i1/0000699.pdf
Category: Net
Be Multi Homed!
Are you multi-homed? In short terms, are you connected to the Internet via more than one Internet Service Provider? Today, more and more business activities rely on Internet: corporabe website, emails, online shopping. Loosing your Internet connectivity is a major risk. Could you evaluate it? What will happen if your
NAP, 802.1x, VMPS & Co
Not a very long time ago, security was still focussed on the external side of networks and all bad guys playing on the Internet. Now, the perimeter security (DMZ, firewalls, IDS and other toys) is performed by mature technologies and devices to protect your network against external attacks (but never
Cisco Routers : Penguins Inside?
It has been officially announced by Cisco: Application eXtension Platform (AXP) enhances the capabilities of the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) by enabling a tighter integration between the branch network, IT and application infrastructure. Ok, what does it mean? High-end routers were already able to run TCL scripts. Now, thanks
openpacket.org – Network Traffic Trace Repository
A new free service is available to analysts, network administrators, students or any other people involved in security: openpacket.org. The goal of this new service is to provide network traces for further analyze. This can be very useful to analyze how work well-known worms or any other kind of attack.
Suspicious MSN Activity?
Today, I received a strange message from a friend on MSN. Just a link: http://xxxxx.0a8qmz.info where xxxxx was my friend’s name. Just the URL, nothing else. It was not a normal behaviour for him! For security (we never know what can happen), I started a new browser in a VM
Cisco Acquired Sguil
Announced on TaoSecurity, Cisco acquired Sguil. Sguil is a monitoring tool for network security anaylists. It provides realtime traffic analysis and goes deeper up to the raw packet level. Why is Sguild a nice opportinity for Cisco? It’s developed in TCL and high-end Cisco routers and switches have TCL builtin!
BGP DoS
On 25th February, YouTube was unreachable on the Internet for more than one hour. The problem came from Pakinstan! Pakistan authorities decided to filter an “offending” video. There are two major Internet providers overthere. The good one decided to redirect YouTube traffic to a proxy and ban the video. The
Google celebrates the 25 years of TCP/IP!
Note the “SYN”, “SYN+ACK”, “ACK” written in dots under the “Goo”!
The day the routers died…
whois POEM-RIPE55-SONG. This song closed the RIPE-55 meeting held in Amsterdam.