The Internet Society’s Andrei Robachevsky recently discussed with IDG News Service Collaborative Security, MANRS, and how we can work together to make the Internet’s routing system a safer and more stable place. In “Fixing the Internet's routing security is urgent and requires collaboration,” Andrei and others discuss anti-spoofing, DDoS attacks, and more.Regarding MANRS, specifically, here’s a snippet of the article:“Implementing the MANRS recommendations, which are based on existing industry best practices, can have some short-term costs for ISPs, but according to ISOC, that's probably not...

This morning at the 2016 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), four papers were given “Distinguished Paper Awards.” They are listed here, with links to the full papers: Transcript Collision Attacks: Breaking Authentication in TLS, IKE, and SSH Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent (INRIA) ProTracer: Towards Practical Provenance Tracing by Alternating Between Logging and TaintingShiqing Ma, Xiangyu Zhang and Dongyan Xu (Purdue University) Forwarding-Loop Attacks in Content Delivery NetworksJianjun Chen, Xiaofeng Zheng, Haixin Duan and Jinjin Liang (Tsinghua University...