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 ...

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 ...

No more excuses, Cloudflare says, when it comes to BGP security, with the introduction of a new tool that can hold ISPs to account for their BGP safety measures. Last week, the cloud services provider ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Zealand's voluntary ISP filtering scheme is up and running on two ISPs. Thanks to Border Gateway Protocol voodoo, some deep packet inspection, and Swedish software, the Kiwis hope to put the ...