Danny McPherson's Posts

Internet Routing Scalability Talk

May 11, 2009 by Danny McPherson

Last week at RIPE 58 in Amsterdam I had to opportunity to present some content in the routing working group on work I’ve been doing with a past colleague of mine, Shane Amante (Level 3 Communications), and some of the routing research folks at UCLA.  The slides I presented are available here (pdf) and I [...]

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60 Days of Attack Scale & Duration

May 4, 2009 by Danny McPherson

Over the last couple months we’ve observed a discernible uptick in DDoS attack activity and effectiveness, namely across two vectors; scale and virulence.  The scale bit is easier to qualify and quantify than the virulence bit, as the hostility of a given attack is usually best qualified by the impact on the target, not some [...]

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DNS Attack Surface

April 6, 2009 by Danny McPherson

In early February I had an opportunity to attend The Global DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency Symposium at Georgia Tech Information Security Center in Atlanta.  The symposium was composed of three primary ‘breakout’ tracks, interspersed with multiple plenary sessions aimed at compiling and discussing breakout track information and multi-track intersections.  The breakout sessions, all focused [...]

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