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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook all got temporarily rerouted thru RUSSIA.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/suspicious-event-routes-traffic-for-big-name-sites-through-russia/Traffic sent to and from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider Wednesday under circumstances researchers said was suspicious and intentional.
The unexplained incident involving the Internet's Border Gateway Protocol is the latest to raise troubling questions about the trust and reliability of communications sent over the global network. BGP routes large-scale amounts of traffic among Internet backbones, ISPs, and other large networks. But despite the sensitivity and amount of data it controls, BGP's security is often based on trust and word of mouth. Wednesday's event comes eight months after large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom, also under suspicious circumstances.
According to a blog post published Wednesday by Internet monitoring service BGPMon, the hijack lasted a total of six minutes and affected 80 separate address blocks. It started at 4:43 UTC and continued for three minutes. A second hijacking occurred at 7:07 UTC and also lasted three minutes. Meanwhile, a second monitoring service, Qrator Labs, said the event lasted for two hours, although the number of hijacked address blocks varied from 40 to 80 during that time.
Not just another BGP error
While BGP rerouting events are often the result of human error rather than malicious intent, BGPMon researchers said several things made Wednesday's incident "suspicious." First, the rerouted traffic belonged to some of the most sensitive companies, whichbesides Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoftalso included Twitch, NTT Communications, and Riot Games. Besides the cherrypicked targets, hijacked IP addresses were broken up into smaller, more specific blocks than those announced by affected companies, an indication the rerouting was "intentional."
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When Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook all got temporarily rerouted thru RUSSIA. (Original Post)
pnwmom
May 2018
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C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)1. And Republicans want to end the investigation
Could it possibly be that our nation is under attack and we're being sold out by traitors??
Zoonart
(11,860 posts)2. Bolton wants to eliminate the top cyber security office in the
Government. Russia is testing it's control. Cyber attack soon?
monmouth4
(9,694 posts)4. I wish/hope there will be an investigation into Bolton. n/t
BigMin28
(1,176 posts)3. Then there is this
Bolton Wants To Eliminate Critical White House Cybersecurity Job
[link:http://bluestatedaily.com|