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

Kentik

And Google disclosed seven vulnerabilities in DNS’ Dnsmasq software. A major Russian telecommunications company appears to have begun providing an internet connection to North Korea. Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities (Google Blog). Most Companies Are Unprepared for DNS Attacks (HelpNetSecurity).

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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News in Networking: Verizon-Disney Rumors, ‘Most Promising’ 5G Operators, and UN List of Security Gaps

Kentik

HTTP and DNS in a 5G World (Network World) HTTP and DNS may be “household name protocols,” according to Network World contributor and wireless wiz Alan Carlton, but NFV and MEC could change that. It’s followed by the U.S. and Malaysia.

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IoT Security Standards and Initiatives

CATO Networks

The following month, the Mirai botnet arranged 100,000 IoT devices to launch an attack on DYN , the DNS provider. Read about IoT Security Best Practices The post IoT Security Standards and Initiatives appeared first on Cato Networks. The industry has responded with numerous efforts and initiatives. Think weve missed some? Let us know.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

During the leak, a large portion of the internet’s traffic was redirected to AS7007, where it overwhelmed its networking equipment and was dropped. Large-scale origination leaks like these have become less frequent in recent years due to increases in the automation of router configuration in topologically-central networks.

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

CloudFaire

Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. Cloudflares unique vantage point When we published our first report , Cloudflares global network capacity was 35 Terabits per second (Tbps).