In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system — a vulnerability so severe that it ...

Systems Approach I’ve been working on a chapter about infrastructure security for our network security book.… The core of the Internet is notoriously vulnerable to attacks, with Border Gateway ...

BGP is how the autonomous networks that make up the internet share routing information to find the best route for IP traffic. CISA describes BGP as 'the most important part of the internet you’ve ...

For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn't a hack or a bug. It was problems with the internet data ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

Internet access is becoming more and more critical for handling everyday business. To ensure Internet redundancy and optimum performance, organizations may want to consider implementing BGP ...

So, BGP removes the default. This change propagates through BGP to the MPLS providers. The carrier’s MPLS backbone picks a default route from another hub site, reconverges, and Internet traffic flows ...

To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal ...

The Internet works by chopping data into chunks called packets. Each packet then moves through the network in a series of hops. Each packet hops to a local Internet service provider (ISP), a company ...