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Internet Traffic To Major Tech Firms Mysteriously Rerouted To Russia (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Internet traffic to some of the world's largest tech firms was briefly rerouted to Russia earlier this week in what appeared to be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attack. Internet monitoring service BGPmon noticed that 80 IP prefixes for organizations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, NTT Communications, Twitch and Riot Games had been announced by a Russian Autonomous System (AS).
It happened twice on Tuesday and each time it only lasted for roughly three minutes. The first event took place between 04:43 and 04:46 UTC, and the second between 07:07 and 07:10 UTC. Despite being short-lived, BGPmon said the incidents were significant, including due to the fact that the announcements were picked up by several peers and some large ISPs, such as Hurricane Electric and Zayo in the U.S., Telstra in Australia, and NORDUnet, which is a joint project of several Nordic countries. The incident is rather suspicious, as the prefixes that were affected are all high profile destinations, as well as several more specific prefixes that aren't normally seen on the Internet.
It happened twice on Tuesday and each time it only lasted for roughly three minutes. The first event took place between 04:43 and 04:46 UTC, and the second between 07:07 and 07:10 UTC. Despite being short-lived, BGPmon said the incidents were significant, including due to the fact that the announcements were picked up by several peers and some large ISPs, such as Hurricane Electric and Zayo in the U.S., Telstra in Australia, and NORDUnet, which is a joint project of several Nordic countries. The incident is rather suspicious, as the prefixes that were affected are all high profile destinations, as well as several more specific prefixes that aren't normally seen on the Internet.
Seems to me you can complete quite a few MitM attacks in three minutes. Wonder how many people were compromised and/or how many websites were compromised? Or was this just a 'dry run' for a larger attack? Guess we won't know until the other shoe drops.
If we have someone if office that broke the law, we shouldn't leave them in out of fear that their successor's policies are worse. That makes it even more political. If they did something wrong, they did something wrong, that's it. Not "it's illegal, but we'll selectively not enforce the law because..."
I don't know the relationship (if any) between the two, but is it just coincidence this is happening less than a month after this:
https://uawire.org/russia-offers-to-deploy-root-name-servers-in-brics-countries
Also, is this something that can be attributed to the 'handing over' of certain services from the US to the UN?
I had a sucky sig.
I have more faith that Pence will be working towards are national interests vs Trump who is out for Trump.
I much rather be displeased about the choice the President Made, vs Scared of the choice the President had made.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The Constitution has provisions to handle this unfortunately and if Mike Pence isn't impeached as well, he's in and there's a pecking order as to who gets in determined as well if I recall correctly.
A better title for the story: Major internet routers still inexplicably accepting unauthenticated BGP announcements
See that "Preview" button?
The Constitution has provisions to handle this unfortunately and if Mike Pence isn't impeached as well, he's in and there's a pecking order as to who gets in determined as well if I recall correctly.
Wikipedia has the current line of Presidential Succession:
See *anyone* in there you'd really like to see as President?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The routing tables used for IPv6 are different, but there's no added feature in IPv6 that would protect from a BGP attack or accidental misconfiguration.
Not suggesting that. If Mueller discovers there was in fact collusion and therefore Trump can't legitimately be POTUS, I'd hope that they'd throw out his entire cabinet and force a special election.
You cannot be serious.. A "Special election"?
We are a nation of laws and the whole thing starts with the US Constitution which addresses how it works when the office of president is vacant and it's NOT by special election. The office goes to the Vice-president who then appoints a new VP of his/her choice. Should BOTH the President and Vice-president be incapacitated at the same time, the office would fall to the speaker of the house, right now that would be Paul Ryan... There is a whole list of who gets the office in the case where all the previous people are unavailable but we've never had to go past VP at this point.
Assuming "Rick" is a US citizen, I'm shaking my heat wondering what kind of school he went too which seems to have omitted any discussions about the US constitution because his education is sorely lacking, painfully so. A "special election" ? Now that's sad.
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If Trump is found to be illegally elected then Pence is too.
There is going to be no finding of Trump being elected illegally. The moment that Hillary conceded the election, as did Al Gore before her, the result was final and legal no matter how "crooked" or "influenced" it was.
True, but the president appoints and a majority of congress approves or not. Pence would get his choice because I doubt the democrats would want to be seen turning his choice down just for spite, and it would be just for spite.
I suppose it would depend on the circumstances of Pence taking power though. IF Trump is forced out (impeached/convicted or resigns under duress) the democrats would be stupid to be seen bashing Pence after bashing Trump. I can see the voters getting really tired of the partisan game playing by then. If Trump is incapacitated or dies in office, the sympathy factor will preclude democrats wanting to be seen as bashing Pence.
I don't see impeachment/conviction being even remotely possible regardless of what 2018 brings us in the house. You might manage to float it though the house after 2018 but It's far from sure democrats will take the house back. (I'm betting not). If you do manage to get articles of impeachment though the house I doubt Trump will resign under democratic pressure, doesn't seem to be his style. The Senate won't vote to convict regardless of what happens in 2018 (it takes 2/3rds you know). So Trump remains president though January 20, 2021.
But I have a question... What would be the "high crimes and misdemeanors" in this hypothetical impeachment? I cannot seem to come up with anything that's plausible and serious enough to warrant what you trying to do here. Just because folks like to yell "Impeach 45" at campaign rallies doesn't make it possible or advisable...
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I have a throwaway Facebook account, with a deliberately useless password (easy to recover even with hash+salt) - and it was logged into yesterday from Brazil of all places. Unless Facebook allows unlimited attempts at password logins, before notifying users of failed login attempts, then nobody has tried to login to my account before - and this person appears to have gotten in first-time... So, wonder if my account as MITM'd during a BGP reroute - I didn't login since Monday or before, though.