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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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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. Carlton notes, “HTTP will need to become more streamlined and lightweight to meet the high throughput and strict delay requirements of 5G.”

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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. Late last year, for example, attackers exploited a vulnerability in a brand of IoT cameras to launch a DDoS attack on the website of security expert Brian Krebs. The industry has responded with numerous efforts and initiatives.

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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. DNS The Domain Name Service (DNS ) is the address book of the Internet.

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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

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%). Top L3/4 DDoS attack vectors: 2024 Q4 An additional common attack vector, or rather, botnet type, is Mirai.