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Significant Uptick Reported in Targeted Internet Traffic Misdirection

By CircleID Reporter
  • November 20, 2013, 4:30 pm PST
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Jim Cowie of Renesys reports: “Traffic interception has certainly been a hot topic in 2013. The world has been focused on interception carried out the old fashioned way, by getting into the right buildings and listening to the right cables. But there’s actually been a significant uptick this year in a completely different kind of attack, one that can be carried out by anybody, at a distance, using Internet route hijacking. After consultations with many of the affected parties, we’re coming forth with some details in the hope that we can make this particular vulnerability obsolete.”

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