Trends in network operator security
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Thu Jan 9 12:53:44 UTC 2003
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 todd.glassey at att.net wrote:
> Arent these more the attack trends of tier-3 providers and not network
> operators.
Maybe. I don't see too many tier-1 network operators attacking other
tier-1 network operators. The trend I continue to see affecting network
operators is customer security incidents, i.e. compromised end-user
applications.
> Seems to me that The the real issues is when the tier-2 and tier-1
> infrastructure come under attack. Otherwise these others are all at the
> applications layer - which so few on this list are interested in.
There are lots of interesting problems, but I don't know if 2003 is
the year. DOS is just too much fun.
Route hijacks/bogus origins
Compromised infrastructure
MLPS alteration
Authentication attacks
Physical intrusion
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