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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the 2nd post in the 3 part series of “Understanding the BGP Table Version”. Please visit http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80089 to review part 1 ...

To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal ...

What if the internet you rely on every day wasn’t as seamless as it seems? What if hidden inefficiencies were quietly disrupting traffic, slowing connections, and wasting resources? In this guide, ...