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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. BGP The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a protocol for exchanging routing information between different autonomous systems (ASes) on the Internet.

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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. The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Act of 2017 introduced in August, represents an effort to establish industry-standard protocols and require IoT manufacturers to disclose and update vulnerabilities.

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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.

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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

They are part of the HTTP protocol and allow communication between clients (such as browsers) and servers. HTTPS in legitimate traffic and DDoS attacks: 2024 Q4 Layer 3/Layer 4 DDoS attacks The top three most common Layer 3/Layer 4 (network layer) attack vectors were SYN flood (38%), DNS flood attacks (16%), and UDP floods (14%).