Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
I am just not sure if this is a serious concern or trivial. But the more ISP’s and companies like adobe that get hacked, well I am considering doing much more to keep my data, computer and net traffic private.
If Wired is right, and I see no reason to doubt this point-Emails, credit card data, passwords to online banking are all at risk.
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system — a vulnerability so severe that it could allow intelligence agencies, corporate spies or criminals to intercept massive amounts of data, or even tamper with it on the fly.
The traffic hijack, they showed, could be done in such a way that no one would notice because the attackers could simply re-route the traffic to a router they controlled, then forward it to its intended destination once they were done with it, leaving no one the wiser about what had occurred.
Now, five years later, this is exactly what has occurred. Earlier this year, researchers say, someone mysteriously hijacked internet traffic headed to government agencies, corporate offices and other recipients in the U.S. and elsewhere and redirected it to Belarus and Iceland, before sending it on its way to its legitimate destinations. They did so repeatedly over several months. But luckily someone did notice.
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