BGP
Border Gateway Protocol: the routing system that determines how data travels across the internet.
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is the GPS of the internet. It is the protocol that routers use to figure out the best path to send your data from point A to point B across thousands of interconnected networks. When BGP has a problem (a "BGP leak" or "BGP hijack"), traffic can be sent to the wrong place, causing outages or security incidents. Major internet outages, like when a large cloud provider goes down, are often caused by BGP misconfigurations.
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- How Expired Name Servers Become Domain Hijacking Vectors
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- The Shrinking Perimeter: Common Service Exposure Across IPv4
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