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

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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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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

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In this incident, a software bug caused a router to announce a large part of the IP address ranges present in the global routing table as if they were originated by AS7007. Two competing methodologies, RPSL and RPKI, are used to inform the defensive configuration of routers.