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Following attacks on little-known but vital internet protocol with traffic hijacked, the US wants border gateway protocol security plans and reporting

There was a somewhat unfortunate outage for a major communications service provider in Australia, Optus, in mid-November. It appears that one of their peer Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) networks mistakenly advertised a very large route collection to the Optus BGP network, which caused the routers to malfunction in some manner.

On Friday, July 28, 2023, AWS announced they would begin charging for every IPv4 address an account is allocated or using on the platform, starting February 1, 2024. That's a change from the current scheme, which only charges you for addresses you reserve, but aren't using, or if you reassign the same address over a hundred times a month.

In cooperation with the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), we are planning a DNSSEC and Security Workshop for the ICANN78 Annual General Meeting being held as a hybrid meeting from 21-26 October 2023 in Hamburg, Germany in the Central European Summer Time Zone (UTC +2). This workshop date will be determined once ICANN creates a block schedule for us to follow; then we will be able to request a day and time.

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Hackers launched more ransomware attacks on companies in the last two years than the previous 5 years combined, study finds.

Human error continues to play a significant role in breaches across all industries...

Human error continues to play a significant role in breaches across all industriesWhat you need to know: Cost per ransomware incident doubled over the past two years, with ransomware accounting... | June 6, 2023

Zayo announced a series of updates to its network including a shift to 400G connectivity. #pressrelease

Zayo continues to invest in growing, protecting, and automating its core to cloud to edge network capabilities and solutions. #pressrelease