Routing data around the Internet has never been an easy task. With so much traffic permeating the net, choosing the right path to move data from point A to point B is becoming a real challenge. And ...

It's hard to believe that despite so much manpower, time, and money dedicated to the cybersecurity industry, an entire class of vulnerability can fly under the radar. But researchers from Forescout ...

BBN’s Secure BGP, which establishes a public-key infrastructure to stymie IP address spoofing, is still a work in progress and has yet to be implemented in Internet routers. Router memory constraints, ...

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 ...

Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. In a presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier ...

The vulnerabilities in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) have been widely known for many years now. The threats range from attacking the TCP port 179 connections between peers, injecting false ...

When I was in school, our class visited a post office to see how it works. The postmaster told us that they sort mail by destinations and put them in corresponding bags. Sometimes a straight route is ...

Business suffers when the network goes down or performance lags in today’s hyper-connected, always-on world. A dropped video call potentially means a lost sale. An ...

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) forms the backbone of Internet routing by facilitating the exchange of network reachability information among Autonomous Systems (AS). As such, BGP is critical for ...