Worth Reading 092026 We will be as unknowledgeable about what machines know about us as they are about what we know about them. This post analyzes the technical details of the BGP hijack against Softaculous Ltd, the company behind the Softaculous auto-installer and the Virtualizor VM management platform. In this episode of PING, we speak with Willem Toorop from NLnet Labs and Ilyas Rahimi, who recently completed a Master’s in Security and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). They discuss their research into the effects of local root serving. One effective form of attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, including the root servers, is the so-called ‘random name attack’. The original purpose of a telephone number was to identify a specific customer. When telephones first came into use, they could only be used to call people in the immediate area who could be connected by the local neighborhood operator. Related Posted in WORTH READING ← Hedge 319: Using AI
