What is BGP? If you have to explain what BGP is to someone new to the service provider environment, the best definition is it's the routing protocol that makes the internet work. The protocol ...

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is the protocol that enables the internet's global routing system. It manages how packets get routed from network to network by exchanging routing and reachability ...

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 ...

Hackers carried out a supply-chain attack that installed malware on networks using unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of ...

Lurking at the core of all modern internet traffic is a protocol that few properly understand and even fewer know how to actually secure. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol ...

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 ...

Hackers delivered malicious updates to the Virtualizor VPS management software after hijacking BGP routing for its update ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Communications Commission is taking another step into the world of cybersecurity, teeing up a rule aimed at bolstering the ...

Over 50% of IP addresses owned and used by federal agencies will have enhanced data routing security measures in place by the end of the year to help prevent hackers from hijacking digital pathways ...

Some of the world’s top network engineers are engaged in a research effort that could lead to the most radical redesign of the Internet’s underlying routing architecture since it was developed in the ...

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. Today, at approximately 11:50 AM EST, all three websites were ...