1. Border Gateway Protocol Hijacking Nick Beattie Networking & Security April 11th, 2011

4. What is theBorder Gateway Protocol? And, how can it be hijacked?

5. h@ck3r Defense Advanced Research Project Agency – Program Manager "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.” -Peiter “Mudge” Zatko , 1998 Congress

7. “There’s no vulnerabilities, no protocol errors, there are no software problems. The problem arises (from) the level of interconnectivity that’s needed to maintain this mess, to keep it all working."

8. Why? It’s necessary.

9. Traffic routed towards DefCon – Las Vegas Theory Traffic routed through servers in New York City Practice Traffic rerouted back to DefCon – Las Vegas

10. YouTube Pakistan’s Black Hole

11. China Telecom’s 18 minutes of fame

12. 50,000 IP Blocks 170 Countries 50,000 IP Blocks 15% of the Internet .com, .net, .org, .gov, .mil Email Instant messaging Web requests China Telecom Intended Destination

14. Why didn’t China Telecom buckle under the increased Internet traffic?

15. What does mean is possible?

16. Corporate Espionage

17. Nation-state spying

19. Questions about BGP

20. Works Cited http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/11/16/china-hijacked-15-of-us-internet-traffic-and-no-one-noticed/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/16/internet_backbone_hacking/ http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/11/chinas-18-minute-mystery.shtm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLPKuAOe50 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/08/revealed-the-in/