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?

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a fundamental problem in the internet’s fabric, of how it routes traffic from one point or network to another, that makes it less secure than what it should be. You don’t think about it every ...

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 ...

As more and more networks are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) validation and signing of their BGP routes—to protect themselves against route hijacks and leaks, what should ...

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, ...

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 ...

Shortcomings in Border Gateway Protocol enabled sensitive data to be rerouted to China, yet no changes will likely be made Whether it was 15 or only 1 percent of all traffic that was misrouted, the ...

A panel of academic experts recently took part in a discussion on the future of the internet, and among other things highlighted its fragility, the ease with which it can be disrupted and its seeming ...