ZNET - In an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) paper, Losing control of the Internet: using the data plane to attack the control plane, Schuchard describes the theoretical assault as “the Coordinated Cross Plane Session Termination, or CXPST, attack, a distributed denial of service attack that attacks the control plane of the Internet. CXPST extends previous work that demonstrates a vulnerability in routers that allows an adversary to disconnect a pair of routers using only data plane traffic. By carefully choosing BGP sessions to terminate, CXPST generates a surge of BGP updates that are seen by nearly all core routers on the Internet. This surge of updates surpasses the computational capacity of affected routers, crippling their ability to make routing decisions”
Full article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-to-crash-the-internet/680
Nice information, you should look into mIRC and msL. ;)
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ReplyDeleteI hope that they find a method to fix the vulnerability. A 250,000 PC botnet is a very large number of computers but I suppose that it is possible.
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wow. that's interesting info.
ReplyDeletelol..it reminded me of "the internet crash of 2007" that only the onion news reported
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