IP Traceback: Has Its Time Arrived?

An overview of attacks targeting ISP infrastructure, covering DDoS, IP spoofing, route leaking and BGP hijacking, illustrated by the 2016 Mirai attack on Liberia's national internet.

After every HTTP request from his network got intercepted and replayed by a DigitalOcean IP in seconds, Sam Curry investigates who hacked his modem—and why millions of modems are at risk.

It is useful for authorized remote access, exposing lab services, and building penetration-testing tunnels, while covering multiple proxy and transport protocols in one tool. Internet-facing servers should use strong tokens and preferably TLS or mTLS to reduce unauthorized-access risk.

External penetration testing examines internet-facing services, while internal testing simulates insider threats or post-breach attackers. This article compares the two approaches and their use cases.

IPinfo research on masked IP trends: VPN, proxy and Tor usage across IPv4 and IPv6, with takeaways for allowlisting, denylisting and shrinking cloud attack surface against hidden malicious actors.

Learn why IoT devices may be the next big security risk – for both employees' personal lives and corporate networks.