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 ...

Thanks to the virtually infinite bandwidth of fiber—or rather, the empty tubes that can hold multi-fiber cables—the Internet has continued to get faster for almost four decades, with congestion only ...

The Internet is fragile. Many of its protocols were designed at a time when the goal was rapid network expansion based on trust among operators. Today, the Internet’s open nature is what makes it so ...

A well-crafted rule would be the best way to increase industry adoption of measures that can effectively mitigate security vulnerabilities in the internet’s routing protocol, the departments of ...

A group of CDNs and cloud providers are joining in on a fight against common internet routing attacks. A group of tech giants – including Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Facebook, Google, ...

Every year, there are multiple reports of internet routing outages or attacks that significantly disrupt internet traffic. Typically, these incidents are measured by ...

Here’s our list of the biggest security incidents involving the Internet’s core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental ...

Network Engineers are always looking for new ways to gain some low-cost network testing capabilities. Few companies sufficiently fund networking labs for their networking teams to learn on prior to ...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways ...