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 ...

Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. In a presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier ...

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 ...

Work that started last October on securing the protocol that binds the Internet together is finally yielding results. This week, a department called the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence ...

Two US government agencies have united forces to coordinate the creation of a new set of standards aimed at securing the process of routing of information between major Internet entities, such as ...

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, ...