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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comcast, one of America's largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. BGP route hijacks is a networking problem that occurs when a ...

BGP has been open to misconfiguration and abuse for decades; The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) wants that to change. The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has ...

A core internet routing protocol is at the center of a proposed FCC investigation amid potential threats to the internet at large from state actors like Russia. The FCC is launching an inquiry into ...

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 ...

Foundry's InfoWorld has named noBGP a winner in its 2025 Technology of the Year awards, honoring the company with the top spot in the Application Networking category. The annual awards recognize the ...

Over the past decade, many attackers have exploited design weaknesses in the Internet’s global routing system. Most commonly, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is abused to divert gigabytes, or ...