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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) routes traffic over telecommunications networks using short path labels instead of longer network addresses. According to Gartner, many emerging edge applications require a cloud-delivery-based approach, favoring providers with many points of presence (POPs).

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In November 2018, MainOne, a large telecommunications company in Nigeria, leaked routes received from a number of its peers , including major content distribution networks, to its upstream transit providers. In 2018, attackers employed a BGP hijack that redirected traffic to Amazon’s authoritative DNS service.

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Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

CloudFaire

fasthttp is used to build fast web applications, but is often exploited for DDoS attacks and web scraping too. Security administrators can use this data to strengthen their protection on these endpoints, as applicable. Go-http-client and fasthttp were also commonly used in DDoS attacks. Only 6% was plaintext HTTP (not encrypted).