There are a range of varying claims to BGP visibility or monitoring out there, terms which are themselves quite vague As the routing protocol that runs the Internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a ...

A Dangerous Network: The Border Gateway Protocol has been the primary routing technology for the internet for at least three decades. Like other fundamental internet protocols developed in the 1980s, ...

Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. In a presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier ...

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 ...

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, ...

The US government has set out measures to improve the security for a key part of the internet. The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has released a roadmap to improve internet routing ...

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. Today, at approximately 11:50 AM EST, all three websites were ...

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Cisco is adding a new control plane capability to its Nexus 9000 switches for customers not yet opting for or needing a full-blown application policy infrastructure. Cisco’s BGP Control Plane for ...

Facebook and all of its affiliated companies and services suddenly disappeared from the web on Monday—an outage that lasted over five hours and left users unable to reach their main Facebook, WhatsApp ...