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Entries Tagged ‘bgp hijacking’

Black Hat Europe update: Trust issues?

The “Kaminsky 2.0” at Black Hat today turned out to be  the talk from Daniel Mende and Enno Rey, dealing with vulnerabilities in the BGP and MPLS protocols. From what I can tell, there was no real news; most of the information they presented has been available for a while. The fact that BGP has […]

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Hackers capturing all your internet traffic. Unnoticed.

Did that title get your attention? What if a hacker could intercept all your internet traffic and: Redirect it to another site Return his own advertising on all sites you visit Log all sites you visit, information you post, people you chat or e-mail with And more scary stuff than I’d like to think about […]

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