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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind; it was built with communication in mind. In the same way Tina Turner wailed that love is nothing but “a secondhand emotion,” security is an Internet ...

A large BGP routing leak that occurred last night disrupted the connectivity for thousands of major networks and websites around the world. Although the BGP routing leak occurred in Vodafone's ...

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 ...