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 ...

Finding out after the fact that a big chunk of your internet traffic has been incorrectly routed through a server in China due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing security issues is….not great.

SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the ...

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 ...

When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?

Most of the internet was built for speed not security, so they decided to do something about it ...

As an incident that we reported on last week shows, the Internet routing system isn’t as secure as we want it to be. But how bad is it really? Let’s start with a very short introduction into Internet ...

This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

Long story short we'll probably be moving our leased line to a new ISP in a few months time.<BR><BR>We could have the IP addresses they assign us, but (to my surprise) it appears we already own ...

There are a range of varying claims to BGP visibility or monitoring out there, terms which are themselves quite vague As the routing protocol that runs the Internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a ...