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Confronting Address Space Hijackers

Posted by timothy on from the insert-sound-effects dept.

Tawn writes "There's a great story on SecurityFocus about hijackers taking over large allocations of IPv4 space with forged documents and false business fronts. Los Angeles County and some big multinationals have had /16's pulled out from under them in the last few months, and used to inject spam. ARIN and network operators are trying to get a handle on the problem. The owner of a webhosting company that wound up with L.A. County's /16 called it 'borrowed space,' and said he paid $500 for it to a guy he met online."

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  1. I submitted this... by robslimo · · Score: 5, Informative

    a couple of weeks ago. Not this particular article, but a little write-up with some nice links (rejected, of course).

    Links:
    In your face hijacking

    Current list of possible bogus bgp routes

    Oh, well.