Tomasz Turba

Amazon once again lost control (for 3 hours) over the IP pool in a BGP Hijacking attack

Last month, Amazon lost control of its cloud-based IP address pool for more than three hours, which allowed cyber criminals to steal $235,000 from users of one of AWS’s customers. Using BGP hijacking, hackers gained control over a pool of 256 IP addresses. Briefly describing the BGP protocol, it is a backbone – the basis …

SOCMINT – or rather OSINT of social media

SOCMINT is the process of gathering and analyzing the information collected from various social networks, channels and communication groups in order to track down an object, gather as much partial data as possible, and potentially to understand its operation. All this in order to analyze the collected information and to achieve that goal by making …