http://news.techworld.com/security/3249585/china-internet-hijack-hugely-exaggerated-says-researcher/ By John E Dunn Techworld 19 November 10 The claimed ‘hijack’ of Internet traffic by China Telecom has been hugely exaggerated in scale and intent, a traffic analysis by Internet security company Arbor Networks has concluded. A blog by Arbor chief scientist Craig Labovitz picks apart the speculative claim, attributed to McAfee’s VP of threat research, Dmitri Alperovitch (subsequently clarified here), that the unusual routing diversion through China Telecom at 4am GMT on 8 April 2010 could have amounted to as much as 15 percent of Internet traffic. According to Labovitz, this appears to have been calculated by comparing the 40,000 affected BGP routes to the 340,000 in the routing table as a whole, a calculation originally cited by the industry BGPmon website. Using numbers culled from the Arbor Atlas traffic monitoring system of 80 global ISPs, however, traffic on that day barely increased beyond normal patterns at most it amounted to only a few gigabits per second out of an Internet total between 80 and 100 terabits per second. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Sun Nov 21 2010 - 23:33:16 PST
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