Network Insecurity

Treck TCP/IP Library Flaws Discovered, Patches Issued
via Juha Saarinen, writing at Australia's well-regarded ITNews, reports of security failures in the Treck TCP/IP library, comprimising a wide range of supply-chain related IoT infrastructure. A single ray of happy sunshine ...

No Direction Home: Large Scale Worldwide DNS Attacks
via Muks Hirani, Sarah Jones and Ben Read writing at FireEye's threat research blog, comes notification of world-wide-snf-at-scale domain name system hijacks. Pre-election first-pass stakes-in-the-ground reconnaisance foundation building, or simple larcency? You ...

Latest Chinese BGP Redirect: Your Bits Are In Beijing
News, via Ars Technica's Dan Goodin, detailing another BGP SNAFU - with the end result being the re-route of legit traffic - and this time - it's Googles' (Nasdaq: GOOG) bits-in-question. Included ...