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AWS Route 53 BGP Hijack: What Kentik Saw

Kentik

They can then announce the routes (groups of IP addresses) that they own from their ASN. During a BGP route hijack, an attacker advertises IP prefixes from an ASN that is not the normal originator. This causes legitimate traffic to those IPs to be redirected to the attacker.

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Kentik Takes a Leap Forward in DDoS Defense

Kentik

For destination-based RTBH, the victim’s destination IP address becomes completely unreachable. The victim can update DNS to point at a different IP address in an attempt to get their application back up. The victim can update DNS to point at a different IP address in an attempt to get their application back up.

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

Building custom malware to target specific internet platforms Our industry continues to detect and disrupt custom-built novel malware that targets business for advertising fraud. The stolen information then enables the threat actor to assess and then use users’ advertising accounts to run unauthorized ads.

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Kafka Listeners – Explained

Confluent

are shown indented in the following list: KAFKA_LISTENERS is a comma-separated list of listeners and the host/IP and port to which Kafka binds to for listening. For more complex networking, this might be an IP address associated with a given network interface on a machine. Option 1: External address IS resolvable locally.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

Each AS advertises which IP addresses it can route traffic to, helping traffic move from its source AS to the AS closest to its destination. DNS The Domain Name Service (DNS ) is the address book of the Internet. A LAN is connected to the Internet via one or more ISPs.

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Sponsored Post: PA File Sight, Etleap, PerfOps, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Stream, Scalyr

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Sponsored Post: Fauna, Sisu, Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, PerfOps, Triplebyte, Stream

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