Russia tried to hijack some of Apple's internet traffic for 12 hours
For a period of around 12 hours, Russia's Rostelecom tried repeatedly to route users of Apple services through own servers, even through countermeasures applied by Apple engineers.
Rostelecom is Russia's largest internet provider and for a period of just over 12 hours, it repeatedly tried to hijack traffic intended for Apple services. It can't be established whether this was a deliberate attempt or an internet configuration error, but Rostelecom made what are called false route announcements that could make internet connections to to its servers instead of Apple's.
MANRS, an organization that works "to reduce the most common routing threats," says that Russia did this periodically over July 26 and July 27.
Users never select specific routes to servers, they just attempt to access a service and the routing takes place behind the scenes. MANRS says that effectively, Rostelecom's servers claimed to be the route to a wide range of Apple services.
The organization's full post examines all publicly-available information about the attack and details some steps Apple must have taken to combat it.
Ultimately, what happened is that Rostelecom servers announced they were the route to a broad range of Apple services. But Apple then had its servers announce more specific routes.
"When the routes a network is announcing are not covered by valid Route Origin Authorization (ROA)," writes MANRS, "the only option during a route hijack is to announce more specific routes. This is exactly what Apple Engineering did today."
After around 12 hours, Rostelecom ceased sending the false routing announcements.
"We are not aware of any information yet from Apple that indicates what, if any, Apple services were affected," continues MANRS. "We also have not seen any information from Rostelecom about whether this was a configuration mistake or a deliberate action."
Through the period of time that the routing was under attack, Apple services had no downtime, nor a notable increase in complaints.
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Rostelecom is Russia's largest internet provider and for a period of just over 12 hours, it repeatedly tried to hijack traffic intended for Apple services. It can't be established whether this was a deliberate attempt or an internet configuration error, but Rostelecom made what are called false route announcements that could make internet connections to to its servers instead of Apple's.
MANRS, an organization that works "to reduce the most common routing threats," says that Russia did this periodically over July 26 and July 27.
Users never select specific routes to servers, they just attempt to access a service and the routing takes place behind the scenes. MANRS says that effectively, Rostelecom's servers claimed to be the route to a wide range of Apple services.
The organization's full post examines all publicly-available information about the attack and details some steps Apple must have taken to combat it.
Ultimately, what happened is that Rostelecom servers announced they were the route to a broad range of Apple services. But Apple then had its servers announce more specific routes.
"When the routes a network is announcing are not covered by valid Route Origin Authorization (ROA)," writes MANRS, "the only option during a route hijack is to announce more specific routes. This is exactly what Apple Engineering did today."
After around 12 hours, Rostelecom ceased sending the false routing announcements.
"We are not aware of any information yet from Apple that indicates what, if any, Apple services were affected," continues MANRS. "We also have not seen any information from Rostelecom about whether this was a configuration mistake or a deliberate action."
Through the period of time that the routing was under attack, Apple services had no downtime, nor a notable increase in complaints.
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The people got fed up with paying in blood and treasure and losing on top of it. Important distinction that may also come to apply to Putin and Ukraine.
... is it the opposite of the concept of the internet in terms of communication reliability of multiple web connections ...?
The Kremlin apparently went low tech: www.cnet.com/culture/kremlin-finds-way-to-avoid-leaks-typewriters/
Having that crowd deposed is the only hope for a future peaceful Europe.
There's not ever going to be a popular uprising against Putin. That's just not how things work in Russia. For one, the deaths are disproportionately low in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the two main population centers and of course Moscow is the seat of power. That's not at all a coincidence. Putin is perfectly happy to sacrifice the lives of young men in distant areas of the vast Russian territory. Their families are too far from Moscow to do anything about it, and for decades Russians have had any notion of asserting themselves ground the fuck out of them. First by the Soviet regime, and now by Putin's government. (If anything, Russia is more dangerous than the USSR because at least the Soviet Union wasn't a one-man show.)
Cincytee nailed it. If Putin is ever brought down, it's because he's losing. I was talking to somebody last night who was worried about Putin and his nukes. I told him, look buddy: Putin is aggressive but it's calculated aggression. He's not going to invade NATO territory, we've already proven in Ukraine that NATO weaponry in capable hands can defeat Russia on the battlefield. Actually taking on NATO forces - with their superior training and strategy and tactics and morale - would be disastrous for Russia and for Putin himself.
Putin is not suicidal but if he ever came to the point that he was thinking of lobbing a nuke or two in order to avoid definitively losing in Ukraine, I'm certain that he would be removed by others who don't share his death wish.
This is extra ignorant. Just stop.
I hope the Ukraine can drag it out and make itself the biggest fattest Porcupine it can…..
So yes this has been a goal of the Russians for centuries. The seventy years when they had one, were just an interlude. And Putin’s goal is to reassert Russian influence, effectively to recreate the Soviet Union, ports and high seas navy included. In that he will fail.