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It’s why his Office of the National Cyber Director is taking on challenges like BGP security, he said.
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The roadmap for enhancing internet routing security follows action from the FCC and others.
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Over the course of his term, Joe Biden has presided over an ambitious agenda on regulation and more, to both praise and criticism.
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The Border Gateway Protocol regulations proved less controversial than a $200 million school and library cyber program.
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The regulations would seek to bolster Border Gateway Protocol security, but some industry groups are concerned the proposal is too heavy-handed.
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U.S. agencies want to secure the Border Gateway Protocol, but experts question whether their approach could worsen security.
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Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s largest companies — just by spoofing an email. This is the nature of a threat vector recently removed by a Fortune 500 firm that operates one of the world’s largest Internet backbones. Continue reading The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Continue reading What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?
When we first saw [Ben Jojo’s] post about the Internet inside EvE Online, we didn’t think we’d be that interested. We don’t play EvE — a massively multiplayer game. But it turns out, the post is really about understanding BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and how it helps route traffic in large networks. The best part? He actually simulates a network with 8,000 nodes to test out what he’s talking about.
Obviously, you wouldn’t want to fire up 8,000 Raspberry Pi computers for such an experiment. Using Buildroot, he set up a very small Linux image that had the bare minimum …read more
An experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it last week. Continue reading BGP secure routing experiment ends in online row