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Mar
2022
By Steven Wallace
On Monday, March 28, the Russian ISP RTCOMM began blocking Twitter from their users. Due to a misconfiguration, for a period of 45-minutes, their routing leak had the ripple effect of attempting to hijack Twitter from the entire global internet. Fortunately, the hijack didn’t work. In…
31
Aug
2021
By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University
Routing security continues to be an active area of discussion, both in the research and education networking community and across the industry. Let’s keep the enthusiasm going! IRR Data Clean-Up Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect, has been holding virtual office hours to help community members with all things related to…
17
May
2021
By Steven Wallace
Ninety-five percent of network routes originating from US research and education (R&E) institutions lack a form of hijack protection known as RPKI, or Resource Public Key Infrastructure. Adding this layer of security is something that the IP address owners, typically campuses in the US, will want to address. Internet2 is…
