At DEFCON, Tony Kapela and Alex Pilosov demonstrated a drastic weakness in the
Internet's infrastructure that had long been rumored, but wasn't believed
practical. They showed how to hijack BGP (the border gateway protocol) in order
to eavesdrop on Net traffic in a way that wouldn't be simple to detect.
Quoting: "'It's at least as big an issue as the DNS issue, if not bigger,' said
Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, noted computer security expert and former member of the
L0pht hacking group, who testified to Congress in 1998 that he could bring down
the internet in 30 minutes using a similar BGP attack, and disclosed privately
to government agents how BGP could also be exploited to eavesdrop. 'I went
around screaming my head about this about ten or twelve years ago... We
described this to intelligence agencies and to the National Security Council,
in detail.' The man-in-the-middle attack exploits BGP to fool routers into
re-directing data to an eavesdropper's
network."
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UN chief, other foreign leaders congratulate China on successful Olympics
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other foreign leaders have congratulated
the Chinese government and people on the successful hosting of the 2008 Beijing
Olympics.
A statement released by Secretary-General Ban's press office Monday said:
"The secretary-general congratulates the government and people of China on
their unprecedented effort and success in hosting the historic Olympic Games in
Beijing."
"China can be proud of hosting a spectacular Olympiad, which brought
together athletes and people from all over the world in celebration of the
Olympic spirit, cooperation and goodwill," the statement said.
"The 2008 Summer Games provided an important opportunity for the promotion
of international peace and harmony through deepened dialogue and mutual
understanding within the international community," it added.
Meanwhile, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Dominican
Premier Roosevelt Skerrit also conveyed their congratulations to China.
They praised the Chinese government's outstanding leadership and
organizational ability, as well as the Chinese people's passion and spirit of
unity. They said the Beijing Games will be long remembered as a splendid sports
event in history.
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