Routing protocols have far-reaching effects on the performance and reliability of your network, but sorting out the differences between them can be a challenge. Choose the best one for your network by ...

The NPRM’s proposals aim to mitigate internet routing vulnerabilities by requiring BIAS providers and nine of the largest U.S. telecommunications service providers, including Verizon and AT&T, to (1) ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Communications Commission is taking another step into the world of cybersecurity, teeing up a rule aimed at bolstering 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 ...

The use of switched network environments to forward digital data transmission packets known as frames is a very basic concept in networking and telecommunications. Network switches work to direct ...

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 ...

Thanks to the virtually infinite bandwidth of fiber—or rather, the empty tubes that can hold multi-fiber cables—the Internet has continued to get faster for almost four decades, with congestion only ...