CRN

Cisco Scoops Up Internet Monitoring Startup Code BGP

In its seventh announced acquisition of 2023, Cisco’s company’s network intelligence arm revealed it has acquired Code BGP, a privately held Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) monitoring company. Cisco ...
Computerworld

Secret Windows code leaked on Internet

Microsoft Corp. confirmed late yesterday that some of the secret code underlying its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has been leaked on the Internet. The company played down any ...
Network World

Cisco buys Internet BGP monitoring firm Code BGP

Cisco ThousandEyes gains Code BGP’s real-time detection of BGP hijacking, route leaks and other BGP performance and security issues. Aiming to bolster its assessment of Internet traffic health, Cisco ...
The Economist

A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers

In 2020 XKCD, a popular online comic strip, published a cartoon depicting a teetering arrangement of blocks with the label: “all modern digital infrastructure”. Perched precariously at the bottom, ...
NPR

Parts of Microsoft 'Source Code' Leaked to the Internet

Roughly 15 percent of the "source code" for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 computer operating systems — code usually encrypted to keep it secret — has appeared on some Internet file-sharing ...