In this edition of Network Engineering Community News, we’ve given the newsletter a bit of a fresh coat of paint, but the goal is the same: keeping you in the loop on what we’re building, sharing interesting DDoS and NetSec updates, and staying connected with the community. Let us know what you think! |
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Security Advisory: immediate upgrade recommended | |
Latest FastNetMon release 2.0.380 includes important security fixes addressing multiple vulnerabilities affecting BGP, Flow Spec, Netflow v9, IPFIX, and packet parsing components.
Due to the nature of these issues, we strongly recommend that all FastNetMon users upgrade to the latest version immediately. Full details are available in the security advisory and release notes. |
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 | | Live from NANOG 97! |
Greetings from NANOG 97 in Bellevue, WA! We’re already on-site and looking forward to connecting with the community. Pavel Odintsov will be speaking in the Wednesday session on Monitoring 2,800 BGP Sessions using BMP protocol -- get the details, book a meeting, and follow the updates on our event page. |
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MAP-T in 2026: What operators debate in production networks | IPv6 adoption keeps growing, but IPv4 is still deeply embedded in production networks. MAP-T is one of the transition mechanisms helping operators bridge that gap by carrying IPv4 over an IPv6-only core using stateless translation. This article looks at how it works in practice and, more importantly, what operators are currently debating when it comes to real world deployments. |
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May was a busy month for the FastNetMon team, with events from Taipei to Europe to Washington. It was a great month of connecting with the networking and telecom community -- read the highlights below! |
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ITW 2026 | ITW delivered as always --Washington was all about back-to-back meetings, reconnecting with partners, clients, and new conversations. |
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RIPE 92
| RIPE week in beautiful Edinburgh in summary: routing security talks, operator discussions, coffees, pubs, and plenty of catching up with the community. |
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TWNOG | A busy week in Taipei with Pavel joining a Taiwan Internet Week panel on NIS2 resilience and presenting at TWNOG 7 about the realities of terabit-scale DDoS detection. |
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Datacenter Forum 2026 | Virgil spent a great day in Bucharest talking with data centre and cloud teams about AI infrastructure, scaling challenges, and, of course, the latest in DDoS protection. |
| Read our Rrecap |
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DDoS News | |
| KimWolf DDoS botnet operator arrested | |
Canadian authorities have arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of operating the KimWolf IoT DDoS-for-hire botnet. | | Read More |
| Ubuntu and Canonical services disrupted by a DDoS attack | | Ubuntu users experienced widespread service disruptions after a sustained DDoS attack. |
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See you at these upcoming events! |
| THIS WEEK: NANOG 97 |
The team is already at Bellevue, and happy to meet! Also don't miss out Pavel's talk about monitoring 2800 BGP sessions. | |
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| NetUK3 |
FastNetMon will be joining NetUK's third conference in July. If you're in London, let's catch up! | |
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01-03/06/2026
Bellevue, WA
