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 ...

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 ...

Cloudflare reduces BGP zombies by first announcing stable paths before withdrawal, helping you avoid surprise timeouts and confusing reroutes.

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 ...

Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the ...

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 ...

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, ...

New Zealand's voluntary ISP filtering scheme is up and running on two ISPs. Thanks to Border Gateway Protocol voodoo, some deep packet inspection, and Swedish software, the Kiwis hope to put the ...