IPv6 and security: news from the front – November

Conferences

Fernando Gont gave a presentation at the conference H2HC : Recent Advances in IPv6 Security. The slides are very similar to those presented two months ago. BruCON.

At the conference hack.lu, Eric Vyncke gave a presentation: The Layer-2 Insecurities of IPv6 and the Mitigation Techniques. The slides are also similar to those presented at TNC last May and contain nothing very new.

Videos

A short interview with Eric Vyncke is available: Eric Vyncke from Cisco Systems – IPv6 Deployment for Enterprise. He quickly presents IPv6, the risks associated with IPv6 in a local network and the possibilities (offered by Cisco technologies) to mitigate these risks.

A video demonstrating the effects of the flood_router6 and flood_router26 tools from the THC-IPv6 tool suite was published by Sam Bowne: flood_router26 attack. This video concretely illustrates the impact of an AR-type attack. flood in a local network: a DoS attack.