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 ...

Learn how the internet works with a simple guide on DNS, IP addresses, and routing—explained clearly to show how online connections happen in seconds.

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 ...

Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS attacks observed in May by the ...

The RIPv1 routing protocol is being used to launch DDoS attacks against many hosts on the Internet, according to an Akamai threat report Routing Information Protocol (RIP), an obsolete network routing ...

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 ...

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 ...