One of the other significant enhancements we have done is dynamic Internet routing using our BGP backbone. This has allowed us to consolidate Internet access to only a few large sites, while providing ...

There’s a fundamental problem in the internet’s fabric, of how it routes traffic from one point or network to another, that makes it less secure than what it should be. You don’t think about it every ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you have trouble accessing Google on Monday? If so, that’s because another country may have hijacked your internet traffic. According to a Google blog post on the incident, users were temporarily ...

For all the viruses, malware, and exploits that crawl around the web, fundamental flaws in the system are supposed to be few and far between, but the last two months have proven to be an exception to ...

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 ...

Many people have seen the words 'IP address' and 'provider' when using the Internet. The Internet uses a large number of protocols such as BGP is a type of routing protocol that determines the ...

When we first saw [Ben Jojo’s] post about the Internet inside EvE Online, we didn’t think we’d be that interested. We don’t play EvE — a massively multiplayer game. But it turns out, the post is ...

If you found your Internet speed has been pathetic today and some sites wouldn't load at all, you're not alone. Many tier-one Internet service providers (ISPs), and in turn, the last mile ISPs they ...