Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?

2016-09-13 Thread Bryant Townsend
. Sincerely, Bryant Townsend

Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?

2016-09-13 Thread Bryant Townsend
@ca & Matt - No, we do not plan to ever intentionally perform a non-authorized BGP hijack in the future. @Steve - Correct, the attack had already been mitigated. The decision to hijack the attackers IP space was to deal with their threats, which if carried through could have potentially lead to ph

Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?

2016-09-13 Thread Bryant Townsend
@Blake - I think you misinterpreted my remarks of how this experience will shape the future company policy. I meant to portray that the company will not use these tactics again and that any future threats will be handled differently.

Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?

2016-09-20 Thread Bryant Townsend
everything in this industry and we want to be able to answer as much as we can. Sincerely, Bryant Townsend On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: > Brian Krebs tweeted out that Prolexic reported a 665Gbps attack directed at > his site. > > https://twitter