Blue Security Followup
Dave G. | May 22nd, 2006 | Filed Under: Industry Punditry
Rob Lemos has a story about Blue Security. My favorite part:
It’s uncertain what exactly happened to Blue Security’s site. The IP address for the Web site comes from a block owned by Alternet, which is a backbone network run by the former UUNet, bought by telecommunications company MCI Worldcom, and–as of February 2005–a part of Verizon. However, a representative of the telecommunications company said that Blue Security is not a customer and none of Verizon’s administrators would filter out traffic–known as blackholing–to a Web site.
I love it when people make authoratative statements that they can’t possibly back up. No one would filter out traffic to a website. Inconceivable! I am not saying that it was a Verizon administrator, but if it wasn’t, and it was inside of Verizon (I have no idea if this is true), then who was it?
That is the part of the story I want to hear about.
Cory S
May 23rd, 2006 9:00 amReally good analysis (and some speculation) on this incident at:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2006/05/the_bluesecurity_fiasco_dont_m.shtml
In short, the article asserts that it would be extremely unlikely for a network operator in this case to null route a single site and Blue Security’s network infrastructure left a lot to be desired.
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