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Top Skills to Master in the Age of AI

AI is finding it's way in  a wide variety of applications pertaining to  almost every industry. This AI driven rapidly evolving landscape has created a demand for a unique blend of technical, creative, and interpersonal skills highly sought-after by employers. Listed below are some specialized AI-related skills that are becoming increasingly valuable in the modern times. 1. AI Models Development Understanding how AI and ML work including the underlying algorithms, and learning to develop ML powered apps using tools like TensorFlow or PyTorch is a highly desirable skill to master in the age of AI. Furthermore, the skills in fine-tuning and adapting large pre-trained models (like GPT, BERT, or Vision Transformers) to specific use cases are also useful, allowing you to create specialized applications without starting from scratch. Leveraging pre-trained models and adapting them to new tasks with limited data is particularly useful in NLP and computer vision. 2. AI Models Deployme...
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5 Notorious BGP Hijacking Attacks in Cyber History

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the prevalent protocol for inter domain routing between Autonomous Systems (e.g. Verizon, AT&T and Comcast) across the internet. The configuration of BGP speaking border routers lies under the local control of specific Autonomous System administrators. This makes BGP much insecure and susceptible to attacks as there is no one single administrator. Some of the ways in which BGP can be hijacked due to accidental mis-configuration or deliberate malicious intent are:
  1. An AS may announce that it owns a specific prefix which it does not.
  2. An AS may announce a bogus path to a specific destination which does not exist.
  3. An AS may announce that it can route to a specific destination using a shorter path.
5 Notorious BGP Hijacking Attacks in Cyber History

BGP has been the target of cyber criminals over the years. BGP hijacking is the term referred to using BGP speaking border routers to take control of certain IP prefixes or internet routes. The attackers may then use the resulting traffic for any malicious intents like DoS, phishing, spamming and stealing confidential information. 5 of the most notorious BGP hijacking attacks in internet history are presented below:

  1. AS 7007 Incident: On April the 25th in 1997, AS 7007 (MAI Network Services) advertised all of the prefixes existing in internet as originating from it's AS. This resulted in internet connectivity disruption to large fraction of users. This is popularly known as AS 7007 incident which created a routing black hole. The routes leaked were deaggregated to /24 which were more specific than the prefixes already existing in global routing tables. The AS path was rewritten as 7007 and resulted in loss of internet connectivity to large fraction of population.
  2. China Telecom Attack: On April 8th in 2010, China advertised 50,000 different IP prefixes originating from 170 different countries. The hijack was seemingly accidental as the prefixes were long enough not to disrupt existing routes of the internet.
  3. Pakistan YouTube Block: On February 24th in 2008, Pakistan advertised YouTube prefixes resulting in blocking YouTube access to large population across the world. It was also accidental following a government order to block YouTube access within the country.
  4. ConEdison Hijacks: In January of 2006, ConEdison accidentally hijacked a lot of transit networks including level 3 ISPs disrupting connectivity to a lot of customers. 
  5. Google DNS Outage: In May of 2005, a DNS outage resulted in hijacking of prefixes owned by google. This resulted in search engine giant to be unreachable by domain www.google.com.
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