Network Break 182: BGP Hijacked For Cryptocurrency Heist; Juniper, Big Switch Unveil New Products

Take a Network Break! A cryptocurrency heist combines BGP hijacking with some DNS tomfoolery, Juniper targets enterprise multicloud with Contrail enhancements, and Big Switch adds packet capture and analytics appliances to its product line.

The Linux community swaps out iptables for BPF, Google pushes the Rich Communication Service (RCS) to compete on messaging, and Cisco unbundles Nexus 9000.

Apple exits the home WiFi router market, Innovium snags $77 million to market its programmable ASIC, and Net Neutrality rules have yet to be revoked–why?

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MyEtherWallet DNS Attack Offers Opt-In Lessons – Dark Reading

Make Way for Secure and Automated Multicloud for Any Cloud, Any Workload and Any Deployment – Juniper Networks

Juniper Preaches Multicloud To Win Contrail Converts In The Enterprise – Packet Pushers

Big Mon Recorder and Analytics Nodes Enable Traffic Capture and App-aware Analytics for Cloud-Native Network Defense & Rapid Remediation at Scale – Big Switch

Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF? – Cilium

Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess – The Verge

Google Accused of Showing ‘Total Contempt’ for Android Users’ Privacy – Bleeping Computer

New Portability Options for Cisco’s Data Center Networking Software and Hardware – Cisco

RIP AirPort Base Stations: Why Apple is exiting the Wi-Fi router business – iMore

TERALYNX Running at line-rate 12.8Tbps – Innovium

Innovium Closes $77M in Series D Funding to Drive Commercial Volume Ramps and Innovative Product Roadmaps – Innovium

Tales of the Sausage Factory » Net Neutrality Does Not End Today. We Still Don’t Know When It Will. Which Is Weird When You Think About It. – Wetmachine.com

Net Neutrality Did Not Die Today – Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ajit Pai hasn’t finalized net neutrality repeal—here’s a theory on why – Ars Technica