Hijacking huge chunks of the internet

[G.Wright at west-cheshire.ac.uk (Wright, Gareth)]

An interesting article was posted on the register today regarding the
exploitation of the Border Gateway Protocol, in which :

"Kaminsky also said pulling off the BGP attack would require a level of
expertise that exceeded typical attacks, such as the ubiquitous SQL
injection exploits or those targeting the DNS bug.

"Theres not going to be a Metaspoit module that any kid can run that can
go ahead and run this attack," he said."


(Poor spelling and grammar copied direct from article)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/27/bgp_exploit_revealed/

Slightly more technical detail supplied here
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html

Gareth














http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/27/bgp_exploit_revealed/