🚨After decades of not using a huge chunk of the Internet, the Pentagon has given control of millions of computer addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats
@Redrum_of_Crows Global Resource Systems LLC, FL
@Redrum_of_Crows Global Resource Systems LLC, FL
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1385967519928930313
Did someone at @DeptofDefense sell off part of the military’s vast collection of IP addresses as Trump left office? Had the Pentagon finally acted on demands to unload the billions of dollars worth of IP address space the military has been sitting on, largely unused, for decades?
The change is the handiwork of an elite Pentagon unit known as the Defense Digital Service, which reports directly to the secretary of defense. “This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space. "
DOD declined to answer questions about the project, and Pentagon officials declined to say why Goldstein’s unit had used a little-known FL co to carry out the pilot effort rather than have DOD itself “announce” the addresses through BGP messages
What is clear is the Global Resource Systems announcements directed a fire hose of Internet traffic toward the Defense Department addresses. Madory said his monitoring showed the broad movements of Internet traffic began immediately after the IP addresses were announced Jan. 20
Russell Goemaere, a spokesman for the Defense Department, confirmed in a statement to The Washington Post that the Pentagon still owns all the IP address space and hadn’t sold any of it to a private party.
Dormant IP addresses can be hijacked and used for nefarious purposes, from disseminating spam to hacking into a computer system and downloading data, and the pilot program could allow the Defense Department to uncover if those activities are taking place using its addresses.
opencorporates.com/companies/us_f…
bbb.org/us/fl/plantati…
Domain grscorp.com
Allocated 2020-09-14
IP Addresses: 174,784,512
@Stephaniefishm4
bbb.org/us/fl/plantati…
Domain grscorp.com
Allocated 2020-09-14
IP Addresses: 174,784,512
@Stephaniefishm4
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