Finding out after the fact that a big chunk of your internet traffic has been incorrectly routed through a server in China due to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing security issues is….not great.
Routing data around the Internet has never been an easy task. With so much traffic permeating the net, choosing the right path to move data from point A to point B is becoming a real challenge. And ...
When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?
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 ...
This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...
Long story short we'll probably be moving our leased line to a new ISP in a few months time.<BR><BR>We could have the IP addresses they assign us, but (to my surprise) it appears we already own ...
In 2014, the Internet came to a shuddering halt because the hardware used in switching packets around the wired networks which connect it all together had no memory left to hold the secret decoder ...
Despite White House encouragement to implement RPKI, the protocol is not yet stable or secure enough, according to a team of German researchers. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is not yet ...
A CenturyLink BGP routing mistake has led to a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages for numerous Internet-connected services such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, ...
On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer. For ...