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 ...

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 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) ...

The Federal Communications Commission is taking another step into the world of cybersecurity, teeing up a rule aimed at bolstering the security posture of a crucial worldwide data routing framework.

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 ...

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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission cited Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in announcing its unanimous approval of a notice of inquiry for secure use of the Border Gateway Protocol, the ...

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has intensified the need for robust and efficient communication protocols, particularly in low power and lossy networks (LLNs) where devices are ...