Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the system used to route traffic around the internet, and it's terrible -- despite decades of global efforts to improve its security. According to Geoff Huston, chief ...

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. Today, at approximately 11:50 AM EST, all three websites were ...

Routing protocols play a critical role in the functioning of the Internet and the services built upon them. However, many of these protocols were developed without security concerns in mind. For ...

The Federal Communications Commission is taking another step into the world of cybersecurity, teeing up a rule aimed at bolstering the security posture of a crucial worldwide data routing framework.

A Dangerous Network: The Border Gateway Protocol has been the primary routing technology for the internet for at least three decades. Like other fundamental internet protocols developed in the 1980s, ...

In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped up around the United States for hours. Last year, Google ...

Packet filtering works differently. Instead of shutting down the entire internet, it is used to block specific websites or ...

US internet service provider CenturyLink has suffered a major technical outage on Sunday after a misconfiguration in one of its data centers created havoc all over the internet. Due to the technical ...