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News in Networking: Russian Internet for North Korea, Google Finds DNS Vulnerabilities

Kentik

Reports this week suggest a Russian teleco started providing internet connectivity to North Korea. And Google disclosed seven vulnerabilities in DNS’ Dnsmasq software. Here are those headlines and more: Russia Provides New Internet Connection to North Korea (38 North). Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities (Google Blog).

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

We’re sharing our latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns targeting businesses across the internet, including threat indicators to help raise our industry’s collective defenses across the internet. For more security tips, visit our Newsroom.

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AWS Route 53 BGP Hijack: What Kentik Saw

Kentik

In simple terms, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol that routes traffic on the Internet. Each BGP speaking organization is assigned an Autonomous System Number (ASN) that identifies them on the Internet. During a BGP route hijack, an attacker advertises IP prefixes from an ASN that is not the normal originator.

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Cato CTRL Issues New SASE Threat Report

CATO Networks

Telltale threat indicators are often available but spread across the threat information and network activity of inbound (and outbound) internet traffic, WAN traffic, cloud traffic, and remote user traffic. We spotted advertisements for services for generating fake credentials and creating deep fakes. Beware of where you shop.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet. Keep in mind however, that unless SD-WAN is deployed as part of SASE, it cant support global connectivity, network optimization, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote users.

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Network AF, Episode 4: Untangling business in the ISP industry with Elliot Noss

Kentik

For 25 years, Elliot has been the CEO of Tucows, the internet services company with the second-largest domain registrar in the world. Since the shareware days, the company has become expert providers in domain names, network solutions, fiber internet service, mobile virtual network operations and SaaS. Elliot’s parting advice.

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BGP and RPKI: A Path Made Clear with Kentik

Kentik

Border Gateway Protocol (more commonly known as BGP ) is the routing protocol that makes the internet work. Time and time again, this resulted in a “BGP prefix hijack,” where, in many cases, part of the internet was unreachable. In this case it was due to more specific prefixes that should not have been advertised.

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