Yesterday, tens of thousands of Sprint and Cogent customers got an early Halloween surprise. At 4pm EDT, Sprint and Cogent terminated their direct peering relationship. The below graph shows traffic from the perspective of 25 tier2 ISPs around the world. All of these ISPs are direct customers of either Sprint or Cogent. And all lost [...]
Yesterday, tens of thousands of Sprint and Cogent customers got an early Halloween surprise. At 4pm EDT, Sprint and Cogent terminated their direct peering relationship. The below graph shows traffic from the perspective of 25 tier2 ISPs around the world. All of these ISPs were direct customers of either Sprint or Cogent. And all lost [...]
Sunday, November 2, 2008 marks 20 years since the Morris Worm, oft referred to as The Great Worm, was released by Robert Tappan Morris (RTM). Estimates suggested the worm, exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities in BSD-derived unix systems, infected ~10% of the Internet’s hosts at the time, which encompassed anywhere from 80k total systems by some [...]