First post of 2009, not too late to wish you all the best for this year! Even if IPv6 is at our doors, the version 4 of the Internet Protocol will still be present for a (very) long time. IP is an old protocol and lot of vulnerabilities were already
Tag: Net
dns.be: More Anycasting
dns.be is responsible of the .be (Belgium) TLD. In a few words, this organization manages the administrative tasks to register domains in the .be zone and also maintains a set of .be-root servers which forward requests to the right name servers to resolve .be domains. At the moment, nine servers
Twitter Squatting at Our Doors?
Twitter is a system to perform “micro-blogging”. Like SMS, your posts are limited to 140 characters. A lot of interfaces exists to tweet from laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, … It’s really easy to tweet from everywhere. According to a post on /., squatting of Twitter IDs will become soon a
Infocus: Blocking Traffic by Country on Production Networks
Interesting article about traffic filtering based on countries: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1900/4. (It’s based on Microsoft ISA server but can be easily extended to other platforms)
Four Minutes!
Four Minutes! This is the actual survival time on the Internet for an unpatched system (sources: ISC and the Survival Time Graph). Good practice: Always perform a full patch before connecting a new server on the Internet (even under pressure). A good deployment procedure must be in place.
The Pirate Bay Proposes “IPETEE”
The Pirate Bay wants to encrypt the whole Internet! As you probably read recently, more and more countries and Europe via the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2). In the ISO model, encryption is usually performed at the presentation or application levels. The Pirate Bay would like to encrypt all
Bad Day for “The Planet”
The Planet is a hosting provider like many others in the US. End of May, a fire incident hit one of their Houston data center. A few numbers: 9000 servers down 7500 customers affected $900000 estimated loss Read the story: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185
nsa.gov Offline During a Few Hours
The name servers hosting the National Security Agency (aka nsa.gov) were reported unavailable during a few hours around May the 15th. How is this possible? Let start some investigations using dig. When you query a root-server and ask for the name servers (NS records) of the nsa.gov zone, you receive
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
Hubble Monitors the Internet
Addicted to security, my preference goes to monitoring of infrastructures, reporting and incidents handling. Today, networks are a business critical element in companies whatever, their business and size. I like this citation: “There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being