Given that I’ve seen a number of references to a report Google provided at a RIPE meeting in Dubai a couple weeks ago titled “Global IPv6 Statisics: Measuring the current state of IPv6 for ordinary users“, and several folks comparing it to a report titled Tracking the IPv6 Migration we at Arbor released several months [...]
Earlier this week AS16735 (Companhia de Telecomunicacoes do Brasil Central – CTBC) of Brazil had a bit of a routing snafu that resulted in their [apparent] accidental attempt to hijack a large number of prefixes spread across the whole of the Internet routing address space. In fairness, the terms “route leaks” and “route hijacks” are [...]
The third rogue ISP on our common list of badness sources – McColo – has up and disappeared. In our own database we have been tracking a few dozen botnets that phoned home to McColo IPs as well as nearly 1000 distinct URLs from hudreds of different malcode samples. These guys ran a dirty operation. [...]