Selective Targeting (3)

• Routers increasingly targeted
• • source for recon/scanning
  • proxy to IRC networks
  • source for packet flooding attacks
• • Compromise via weak/default passwords
  • Routers sometimes reconfigured
    • public guides are available
  • Increased threat of routing protocol attacks
    • discussions at DefCon and Black Hat Briefings

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