- Original message - I went to a talk called "stealing the internet" - it...
Haven't read/seen the presentation but hasn't this been known to be possible for a while now? ;) On 8/17/08, Nick Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Johan Beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Are they protecting DefCon from the internet or the internet from DefCon? >> >> Does it have to be one or the other? > > I went to a talk called "stealing the internet" - it was added the last day. > > Using BGP the presenters were able to hijack the defcon /24 ip range and > route it to their server in New York. Normally that's the end of it - just > another DOS. > > The new thing was that they were able to create a path back to the defcon > network over a single route so they could actually return packets. They did > the hijack at noon and at the end of the 4pm-5pm talk they showed a 75 gb > and growing capture file. > > -N
