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 ...

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 ...

I cannot honestly imagine troubleshooting BGP without understanding the BGP table version. I use it all the time. Sometimes it is just a quick “eyeballing” of it to check to see if all the BGP table ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

'No Kings' protesters emerge en masse for anti-Trump rallies Organizers say Trump's policies are pushing the United States toward autocracy. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is ...

Despite White House encouragement to implement RPKI, the protocol is not yet stable or secure enough, according to a team of German researchers. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is not yet ...

Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the ...