When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?

As an incident that we reported on last week shows, the Internet routing system isn't as secure as we want it to be. But how bad is it really? Let's start with a very short introduction into Internet ...

Finding out after the fact that a big chunk of your internet traffic has been incorrectly routed through a server in China due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing security issues is….not great.

Long story short we'll probably be moving our leased line to a new ISP in a few months time.<BR><BR>We could have the IP addresses they assign us, but (to my surprise) it appears we already own ...

There are a range of varying claims to BGP visibility or monitoring out there, terms which are themselves quite vague As the routing protocol that runs the Internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a ...

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 ...

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the system used to route traffic around the internet, and it's terrible -- despite decades of global efforts to improve its security. According to Geoff Huston, chief ...

On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer. For ...

ns-BGP 2.0, which was originally developed in 2003 for ns-2.27 (ns-BGP), is an implementation of BGP-4 in ns-2 network simulator. The initial implementation was developed by porting the BGP-4 model of ...

It’s not unusual for websites to experience an outage from time to time, and there are varying reasons why it can happen. But it is uncommon for a Facebook outage to hit and affect pretty much all ...