Next up at #VelocityConf is @laurentgil [sponsored talk] about the audience vs. the Internet and security risks.
@laurentgil Prefix advertisement/hijacking attacks for DNS servers; falsified resolver results being returned for a phishing Ukrainian server. [ed: doesn't SSL save us from this?] #VelocityConf
Additionally, multiple hour TTL propagation delay prevented quick repair/recovery.
Another case study: an anonymous Dyn customer that sounds a lot like ZocDoc who got attacked by a botnet. #VelocityConf
Another case study: an anonymous Dyn customer that sounds a lot like ZocDoc who got attacked by a botnet. #VelocityConf
ah, no, not a botnet, a crawler that was trying to steal ZocDoc's dataset.
Another case: Data Intelligence stealing other peoples' hard-computed flight pricing data by crawling it. #VelocityConf
Another case: Data Intelligence stealing other peoples' hard-computed flight pricing data by crawling it. #VelocityConf
[ed: and yeaaaah that shit is *expensive* to create, yo. QPX licenses are expensive for one-off computation, and the Google Flights cache is incredibly expensive to compute. --a former Google Flights SRE] #VelocityConf
And peoples' entire internet in a country can be taken down, or access can be subverted by Russia to spearphish journalists, government officials, etc. c.f. Trump-Kim Jong Un summit in Singapore [fin] #VelocityConf
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