DDoS and Security Reports

For those of you not paying attention, a slew of new instabilities in the global routing system are occurring – again.  These are presumably being tickled by another ugly AS4_PATH tunnel bug where someone [read: broken implementation] erroneously includes AS_CONFED_* segments in an AS4_PATH attribute – a transitive optional BGP attribute that’s essentially ‘tunneled’ between [...]

As founder and CTO of Ellacoya Networks, a pioneer in DPI, and now having spent the last year at Arbor, a pioneer in network-based security, I have witnessed first hand the evolution of Deep Packet Inspection. It has evolved from a niche traffic management technology to an integrated service delivery platform. Once relegated to the [...]

(SOURCE Boston 2009) Botnets are being used more frequently to silence political dissenters, explains Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks. Nazario has been studying the rise of botnets as a tool used in cyberwarfare.