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What is a TCP Port: Different Between TCP and UDP Ports

NW Kings

This flexibility allows applications to use any available port without causing conflicts with other services. How does the TCP port work? TCP ports operate at the transport layer of the Internet Protocol Suite. What is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)? What is User Datagram Protocol (UDP)?

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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. During last week’s attack, the attacker was redirecting traffic that belonged to Amazon’s Route 53 DNS servers. Here we have the DNS clients sending their DNS queries to the hijacked blocks advertised by AS10297.

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Exploring for Insights on Anomalous Network Traffic

Kentik

First we’ll look at what protocol the traffic consists of. To see that, we go back to the Metrics menu and choose Destination » Port. We can get an initial feel for this by looking a little deeper at the ports involved. We can do this in multiple ways. Behind the DDoS diversion.

Port 40