13 Sep
2008
13 Sep
'08
3:21 a.m.
i am occasionally asked if there have been real bgp attacks (not slips). the answer is, of course yes, but there are none which can be publicly described. when bucks and embarrassment are involved, security through obscurity seems to rule. but tony and alex did us an enormous favor by publicly conducting such an attack, see http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg10357.html so, what i want to know is which, if any of the tools being discussed on this thread *actually* did or could detect and/or mitigate the tony/alex defcon attack. i appreciate the dozens of tools that detect and mitigate finger or brain fumbles. but those are not where the black hats are gonna go to make the big bucks. randy