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posted by martyb on Saturday April 29 2017, @01:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the CARDiac-surgery dept.

On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the most sensitive Internet communications.

Anomalies in the border gateway protocol—which routes large-scale amounts of traffic among Internet backbones, ISPs, and other large networks—are common and usually the result of human error. While it's possible Wednesday's five- to seven-minute hijack of 36 large network blocks may also have been inadvertent, the high concentration of technology and financial services companies affected made the incident "curious" to engineers at network monitoring service BGPmon. What's more, the way some of the affected networks were redirected indicated their underlying prefixes had been manually inserted into BGP tables, most likely by someone at Rostelecom, the Russian government-controlled telecom that improperly announced ownership of the blocks.

If you did nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear. In Soviet Russia.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by linkdude64 on Saturday April 29 2017, @05:45PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Saturday April 29 2017, @05:45PM (#501596)

    *TRIGGERED*

    WE ARE GOING TO BUILD A WALL IN RUSSIA SO BIG IT WILL SHADE PALIN'S HOUSE IN THE SUMMER!!

    AND WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE WALL???

    RUSS—oh? Mastercard is going to pay for it? Well, whatever.

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