Yesterday, a ‘
mysterious event
‘ involving BGP, the Internet’s border gateway protocol, led to the traffic to many popular websites being routed for around six minutes.
BGP hijacks – the Internet equivalent of changing traffic direction signs – are not very common but occur more often than one would expect for a technology that is so important for the Internet. The technique has been used in the past to
steal freshly mined Bitcoin
, as well as to
send spam
from different netblocks.
Mike Benjamin, who works in security at
Level 3 Communications
, spends a lot of his free time looking at BGP and BGP hijacks. At VB2016 in Denver last year, he gave a
presentation
on the subject. For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we have uploaded the video of Mike’s presentation to our
YouTube
channel.
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