In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system — a vulnerability so severe that it ...

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 ...

With a growing ageing population and increased incidence of obesity and diabetes, the prevalence of heart failure (HF) and atrial fibrillation (AF; the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia) is ...

The roadmap for improving the Border Gateway Protocol calls on the federal government to contract with firms that can provide available secure internet routing technologies. The White House on Tuesday ...

Systems Approach I’ve been working on a chapter about infrastructure security for our network security book.… The core of the Internet is notoriously vulnerable to attacks, with Border Gateway ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FCC will vote next month on whether to adopt the proposal, which would require the nine largest broadband providers to submit their plans confidentially to the agency and file public quarterly ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, many attackers have exploited design weaknesses in the Internet’s global routing system. Most commonly, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is abused to divert gigabytes, or ...