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Season 1 · Episode 121

Grand Theft BGP

0.0August 1, 2013

A BGP hack reroutes the traffic of banks, Amazon and many others. We’ll explain how this can happen, and why we don’t see it more often.

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Episode 1Dropbox Flaws
Episode 2The Cloud Fails
Episode 3PSN Breech Details
Episode 4A Simple Mistake
Episode 5Allan Goes to War
Episode 6Backups & Server Hardware
Episode 7Let’s Go Phishing
Episode 8Hijacking the News
Episode 9Bitcoin Explained
Episode 10Encryption Best Practices
Episode 11Perfect Passwords
Episode 12Leaky Authentication
Episode 13Cyber Warfare
Episode 14Phreaking 3G
Episode 15Classified Cloud
Episode 16Battery Malware
Episode 17Google Server Secrets
Episode 18DEFCON Brings the Scary
Episode 19Planning for Failures
Episode 20Keeping it Up
Episode 21Smarter Google DNS
Episode 22Rooted Trust
Episode 23Ultimate Home Router
Episode 24Ultimate RAID
Episode 25Ultimate File Server
Episode 26Ultimate Backups
Episode 27Pimp My Network
Episode 28Ultimate ZFS Overview
Episode 29Skype Exposes Pirates
Episode 30Great Disk Famine
Episode 31How Malware Makes Money
Episode 32STOP SOPA
Episode 33Stuffed War Stories
Episode 34Allan’s ZFS Server Build
Episode 35Two Factor Fail
Episode 36Simulated Cyber War
Episode 37Future SSL
Episode 38Unsafe Wifi
Episode 39NGINX vs Apache
Episode 40SQL Injections
Episode 41Cyber Bank Heist
Episode 42Answers for Everyone
Episode 43DHCP Attacks
Episode 44Server Room Fire
Episode 45First Day Fail
Episode 46Email Constipation
Episode 47NASA Hacked 5,400 Times?
Episode 48Federal Bureau of Lulz
Episode 49Amazon’s Secrets
Episode 50Exploits for Sale
Episode 51Global Blackout a Hoax
Episode 52Extreme WiFi Makeover
Episode 53Geek’s Natural Habitat
Episode 54Exaggerated Cybercrime
Episode 55Obscurity is not Security
Episode 56Learning to Hack
Episode 57Sage IT Wisdom
Episode 58No Pay? No Patch!
Episode 59Man In the Browser Attack
Episode 60Feedback Blowout #1
Episode 61I Know Your Password
Episode 62Bypassing Authentication
Episode 63Peek Inside
Episode 64Token Security
Episode 65Faster GPU Cracking
Episode 66Network Benchmarking
Episode 67Single Point of Failure
Episode 68Failure Cascade
Episode 69Most VPNs Insecure
Episode 70Not So Secret Answers
Episode 71Server Puppeteering
Episode 72Not so Private Keys
Episode 73Double 0-Java
Episode 74Donated Privacy
Episode 75The Human Factor
Episode 76Self Healing Internet
Episode 77Password SecuritIEEE
Episode 78Wire-Shark
Episode 79Don’t Copy That Floppy
Episode 80Best Tool for the Job
Episode 81Breaking DKM
Episode 82/var/water/logged
Episode 83Security by the Horns
Episode 84Patch Your Password
Episode 85Tales from the BCrypt
Episode 86Cat Got Your Router
Episode 87MySQL or Yours?
Episode 882-Factor Trojan
Episode 89WordPress LAN Recon
Episode 90SSH FUD Busting
Episode 91Saving Private Exploit
Episode 92Hiding in the Silence
Episode 93Red October Hunts You
Episode 94Barricade Your Barracuda
Episode 95Universal Exploit n’ Play
Episode 96Snakes in a Bank
Episode 97Battle of the Bots
Episode 98Attacking the Devs
Episode 99How I Met Your SSH
Episode 100100% Uptime
Episode 101GIF me root
Episode 102Packets Over 90,000
Episode 103Time to Git ZFS
Episode 104Amplifying the Hype
Episode 105FTP Treasure Trove
Episode 106Evil DNS is Evil
Episode 107Dedupe Gone Wrong
Episode 108Intelligent Malware
Episode 109Packet Tells A Lot
Episode 110Jails vs VMs
Episode 111BSDCan 2013 Recap
Episode 112Making the Onion Cry
Episode 113Phishin’ Hole
Episode 114Preparing for Orwell’s Internet
Episode 115What’s in Your Cache
Episode 116HP’s Backdoor
Episode 117Who Watches the Monitors
Episode 118Phish and Chips
Episode 119Exploit Brokers
Episode 120Ethically Hacked
Episode 121Grand Theft BGP
Episode 122Cost of Encryption
Episode 123Encryption Prediction
Episode 124Little Fish Big Breach
Episode 125Security by Mediocrity
Episode 126Random Access Fires
Episode 127NSA SSLeaze