Archive for January, 2009

Two Weeks of Conficker Data and 12 Million Nodes

January 30, 2009 by Jose Nazario

I got access to some sinkhole logs for Conficker to do some processing. The logs are so big (this is one big sinkhole) that processing them took a few days. I only wanted to focus on the worm’s biggest growth period in early January, so I took a two week section and had a look [...]

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Highlights of Arbor Networks’ Fourth Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report

January 30, 2009 by Arbor Networks

Highlights of Arbor Networks’ Fourth Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report Presenters: Tom Bienkowski, Director of Product Marketing, Arbor Networks Danny McPherson, Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Arbor Networks Description: For the past four years Arbor Networks has conducted a survey of many of the world’s network operators. This survey covers topics such as: Most [...]

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Multi-Stage BGP & DNS Attack Vector

January 30, 2009 by Danny McPherson

While I didn’t make it to the NANOG 45 meeting this week in sunny Santo Domingo (bum knee on the mend), I did listen to quite a few of the talks remotely, and pulled most of the presentations for a cursory look.  I found one talk in particular, a lightning talk on Tuesday afternoon titled [...]

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