Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

Hackers carried out a supply chain attack that installed malware on networks using an unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of Internet space where cloud management software used by hosting providers, ...

What are the real world chances of asymmetric routing occurring when we are using AS-path prepends across two different ISPs to try to influence inbound traffic? We are getting close to implementing a ...

No matter what you call it -- prefix hijacking, route hijacking or IP hijacking -- BGP hijacking is when a router improperly advertises itself as having the most efficient route to a victim network.

If you have heard of BGP, then you will likely know it as “the protocol that makes the internet work.” And if you have ever tried to configure it in a multivendor environment, as one of the most ...

What happens when an IP address prefix gets announced or withdrawn. How does this information propagate through the Internet? And how does it affect the amount of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) traffic ...