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====================== NEW Materials =========================

Powersession on Core Security  (4-6 May 2004)
        http://www.ciscoeventreg.net/go/networkers/agenda9.lasso

CPN Summit SP Security Materials (April 2004)
        ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/cons/isp/security/CPN-Summit-2004/


====================== Public Materials ========================

SP Security Materials
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Public On-Line ISP Security Bootcamp - Singapore Summer 2003

http://www.getitmm.com/bootcampflash/launch.html

Sign-On:

http://palomar.getitmm.com/bootcamp/

Much of the materials presented in the ISP Security Bootcamp builds
on and assumes a basic understanding of the principles in the ISP
Essentials materials. This whitepaper is now a book - ISP Essentials
which can be purchased through Cisco Press
(http://www.ciscopress.com/) or through another on-line book store.
The supplements for the book along with the tutorials, workshops, and
bootcamps presented by Philip and I are at: 

      ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/cons/

or 

        http://www.ispbook.com


TEAM CYMRU Templates and Tools
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Team CYMRU provides configuration templates, security templates, and
other services to help make the Internet a safer place to network.
These can be found at:

        http://www.cymru.com/


The Original Backscattered Traceback and Customer Triggered Remote
Triggered Black Hole Techniques
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http://www.secsup.org/Tracking/
http://www.secsup.org/CustomerBlackHole/


What is a BOTNET?
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One of the best write ups is from a freeware tool gone commercial (I
guess so they can scale).

http://swatit.org/bots/index.html


BGP 'Attack Tree' - Realities of BGP Security
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Cisco's CIAG Team moves beyond the armchair hypothesizing of BGP
Security Risk and runs test again the industry's multiple
implementations of BGP

http://wwwin-people.cisco.com/sean/ciag-bgp-blackhatv2.pdf


Communities of People Working Together to Mitigate Miscreant
Activities
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+ Distributed Detection Systems Individuals and Organizations can
Participate:

        Dshield -  www.dshield.org
        My Netwatchman - www.mynetwatchman.com


NANOG SP Security Seminars and Talks
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The NANOG Coordination Committee actively works to product sessions
and seminars to help foster security on the Internet. All sessions
are taped and converted to VOD for all to use for their personal
education. Over time, this effort has generated a valuable On-Line
Tutorial for engineers and organzations seeking to learn more about
running a more secure network.


NANOG Security Tutorial Series

Tutorial: Implementing a Secure Network Infrastructure (Part I)
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/kaeo.html

Tutorial: ISP Security - Real World Techniques I - Remote Triggered
Black Hole Filtering and Backscatter Traceback.
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/greene.html

Tutorial: ISP Security - Real World Techniques II - Secure the CPE
Edge
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ispsecure.html

Tutorial: ISP Security: Deploying and Using Sinkholes
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/sink.html

Tutorial: Deploying IP Anycast
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/miller.html


NANOG Security Sessions


Watching Your Router Configurations and Detecting Those Exciting
Little Changes
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/rancid.html

Building a Web of Trust
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/abley.html

The Relationship Between Network Security and Spam
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/spam.html

Simple Router Security, What Every ISP Router Engineer Should Know
and Practice
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/routersec.html

Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/plonka.html

Trends in Denial of Service Attack Technology
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/cert.html

Recent Internet Worms: Who Are the Victims, and How Good Are We at
Getting the Word Out?
`       http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/moore.html

DoS Attacks in the Real World
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/irc.html

Diversion & Sieving Techniques to Defeat DDoS
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/afek.html

DNS Damage - Measurements at a Root Server
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0202/evi.html

Protecting the BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/bush.html

BGP Security Update
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/barry.html

Industry/Government Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment:
Background and Recommendations
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/avi.html

A National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/sachs.html

How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/vern.html

ISP Security BOF I
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/securebof.html

The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/weaver.html

ISP Security BOF II
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/securebof.html

The BGP TTL Security Hack
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/hack.html

Security Considerations for Network Architecture
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/avi.html

Lack of Priority Queuing on Route Processors Considered Harmful
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/gill.html

Interception Technology: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/schiller.html

The NIAC Vulnerability Disclosure Framework and What It Might Mean to
the ISP Community
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/duncan.html

Inter-Provider Coordination for Real-Time Tracebacks
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/moriarity.html


ISP Security BOF III
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/securitybof.html

S-BGP/soBGP Panel: What Do We Really Need and How Do We Architect a
Compromise to Get It?
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/sbgp.html

BGP Vulnerability Testing: Separating Fact from FUD
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/franz.html

BGP Attack Trees - Real World Examples
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/hares.html

NRIC Best Practices for ISP Security
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/callon.html


RIPE-46 NSP Security BoF
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RIPE-46 BoF: NSP-SEC (Hank Nussbacher) 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/ripe46-nspbof-
nsp-sec.pdf

IRT Object in the RIPE Database (Ulrich Kiermayr) 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/ripe46-nspbof-
irt.pdf

Operational Security Requirements (George M. Jones) 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/ripe46-techsec
- -ops-security.pdf

Infrastructure Security (Nicholas Fischbach) 
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-46/presentations/ripe46-nspbof-
fischbach.pdf


===================== End Public Materials =========================


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Abhishek Verma
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Blackhole Routes
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There are ways to add static routes that can be blackholed. I 
> can understand the utility of such routes if those are 
> installed in my forwarding table. What bewilders me is why 
> would anyone want to advertise "blackhole" routes using say, BGP?
> 
> Is it only to prevent some sort of DoS attacks or are there 
> other uses also of advertising black hole routes?
> 
> Thanks,
> Abhishek
> 
> --
> Class of 2004
> Institute of Technology, BHU
> Varanasi, India
> 

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