BGP is how the autonomous networks that make up the internet share routing information to find the best route for IP traffic. CISA describes BGP as 'the most important part of the internet you’ve ...

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 ...

Lurking at the core of all modern internet traffic is a protocol that few properly understand and even fewer know how to actually secure. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol ...

The routing tables of the Internet (Border Gateway Protocol, BGP) are susceptible to manipulation. Through "BGP hijacking", data traffic is maliciously rerouted, foisted or brought to a standstill. In ...

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. Orange Spain suffered ...

It's hard to believe that despite so much manpower, time, and money dedicated to the cybersecurity industry, an entire class of vulnerability can fly under the radar. But researchers from Forescout ...

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 ...

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 ...