[AusNOG] BGP injection / IP Hijacking / Peer Trust

[Scott Weeks]

--- Sean.Finn at ozservers.com.au wrote:
It appears that one can rent a server or two, link into peering fabric at several points in the U.S, and announce just about anyone's range to intercept traffic then re-broadcast it.
Effectively placing themselves inside a trusted portion of the network where no filtering on announcements is done
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http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1267336.1267347&coll=&dl=

http://phas.netsec.colostate.edu


Been using it a while.  It works well.  Send alerts to your always-on device.

scott



























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