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Limiting the Power of RPKI Authorities

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Kris Shrishak

5 min read

In the beginning, Internet infrastructure was not originally designed with security in mind. Luckily, this mindset has changed over the years, mainly due to the growing number of attacks, and has prompted the design of security measures such as Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and Re…

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DDoS Hide & Seek: On the Effectiveness of a Booter Services Takedown

DDoS Hide & Seek: On the Effectiveness of a Booter Services Takedown

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Daniel Kopp

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In this article, we investigated booter-based DDoS attacks in the wild and the impact of an FBI takedown targeting fifteen booter websites in December 2018. We investigated and compared attack properties of multiple booter services by launching DDoS attacks against our own infrastructure. To unders…

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IPv4 Transfer Markets Misuse: A First Look

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Vasileios Giotsas

7 min read

The secondary IP address market has become a viable source of IPv4 address space, but it may also present opportunities to malicious networks to bypass reputation-based security mechanisms. In this article we summarise the results of our first detailed study of how transferred IPv4 prefixes are mis…

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Our First Glance at the Belarus Outages

Our First Glance at the Belarus Outages

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Alun Davies

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On 9 August, Belarus experienced country-wide Internet outages. Here's a first glance at what our tools and datasets have to tell us about the scale of these outages and their impact.

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Reporting Live From the HOPE2020 Online Conference

Reporting Live From the HOPE2020 Online Conference

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Vesna Manojlovic

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The thirteenth Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE.net) conference is being held entirely online from 25 July to 2 August 2020.  We are following talks relevant to the RIPE community and reporting back. Join us in participating in real time, or watch archived presentations. 

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Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

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Alex Band

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Over the last two years NLnet Labs has been working on free, open source RPKI software and research for the community, supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We are incredibly excited that six months after the first release of Krill it already powers delegated RPKI for over 150 organisa…

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Journeying into XDP: Part 0

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Luuk Hendriks

13 min read

Network programming using XDP has been on our radar (and if you are reading this, possibly on yours too!) for a while now. As tooling around this technology has vastly improved, we decided that it was time to finally get our hands dirty and see what this technology is all about.

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Help to Understand Secure Email Around the Globe

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Mirjam Kühne

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Olamide Omolola and Tobias Fiebig are studying the degree to which email systems are configured securely. And they need your help: they want to receive emails from as many different mail providers around the world as possible.

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Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

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Clemens Mosig

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BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…

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