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Apple Engineering staves off attempted network route hijack
Russian telco Rostelecom tried redirecting traffic through its network.
Jul 29 2022 12:05PM
Routing security falling short in Australian, New Zealand networks
Networks expose users to hijack.
Jun 29 2022 11:55AM
Cloudflare black-holed its own traffic for an hour
BGP slip took 19 data centres offline.
Jun 22 2022 7:56AM
APNIC moves to block BGP fat-thumb outages
Making the Internet more stable.
Apr 12 2022 12:28PM
Russian network 'hijacked' Twitter traffic
BGP insecurity on display again.
Mar 29 2022 12:25PM
Maintenance error caused Facebook's six-hour outage
Undisclosed command triggered meltdown.
Oct 6 2021 7:01AM
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp reconnecting after nearly six-hour outage
Still not 100 percent back online.
Oct 5 2021 11:34AM
All Facebook sites and services vanish from the Internet
Routes to social network disappear.
Oct 5 2021 6:30AM
Akamai routing error caused widespread outages
Around 500 customers affected.
Jun 18 2021 8:59AM
Pentagon surfaces giant netblock for recon and anti IP squatting
Largest IPv4 autonomous system in internet history.
Apr 26 2021 11:18AM
Testing mistake triggered Telstra route 'hijacks'
Routing mishaps difficult to prevent.
Oct 5 2020 7:33AM
Telstra routing flub affects hundreds of networks worldwide
Accusations of BGP hijacking fly.
Sep 30 2020 9:33AM
Internet Society and Oracle release free route filtering checking tool
IXP Filter Check defends against rooted routing.
Oct 24 2019 1:00PM
BGP Optimisers seem a good idea until they bring down the internet
How to avoid getting your routes rooted.
Sep 18 2019 12:40PM
Route leak causes internet problems worldwide
Cloudflare, AWS, Google network routes among those impacted.
Jun 24 2019 10:46PM
Route leak sends Google Cloud traffic to Russia
"Hijack" caused by Nigerian ISP.
Nov 13 2018 11:22AM
China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers
Exploited omission in US-China cyber detente agreement.
Oct 26 2018 11:58AM
Vocus network outage downs internet, voice services
BGP bungle in Brisbane.
Aug 1 2016 11:03AM
Know where your traffic actually goes
[Blog post] Plan on dealing with BGP hijacks.
Aug 4 2015 2:30PM
Route leak cuts access to Amazon Web Services
BGP bungle downs big-name clients.
Jul 2 2015 5:35AM
