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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A group of CDNs and cloud providers are joining in on a fight against common internet routing attacks. A group of tech giants – including Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Facebook, Google, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Over 50% of IP addresses owned and used by federal agencies will have enhanced data routing security measures in place by the end of the ...

Penn engineers have taken quantum networking from the lab to Verizon’s live fiber network, using a silicon “Q-chip” that ...