From: Dave Aitel (dave.aitelgmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 19:49:55 CDT

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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html

"""

BGP eavesdropping has long been a theoretical weakness, but no one is known
to have publicly demonstrated it until Anton "Tony" Kapela, data center and
network director at 5Nines Data <http://www.5ninesdata.com/>, and Alex
Pilosov, CEO of Pilosoft <http://www.pilosoft.com/>, showed their technique
at the recent DefCon hacker conference. The pair successfully intercepted
traffic bound for the conference network and redirected it to a system they
controlled in New York before routing it back to DefCon in Las Vegas.

The technique, devised by Pilosov, doesn't exploit a bug or flaw in BGP. It
simply exploits the natural way BGP works.
"""

If you're in NYC and you need hosting, I highly recommend Pilosoft. They
were Immunity's original hosting provider back before Alex was into going to
security conferences. :>

-dave

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