Tagged: internet infrastructure
A profound vulnerability within the internet’s architectural framework, designated as BGP Vortex, has garnered significant academic scrutiny following its revelation at the USENIX Security 2025 symposium. The flaw stems from the inherent instabilities of...
The stability and resilience of the internet rest largely on systems that remain invisible to most users. Among these foundational pillars is the root DNS server system—a critical mechanism responsible for translating domain names...
A major outage in Cloudflare’s infrastructure became an unexpected test of resilience for countless companies. On 18 November, disruptions across the provider’s services repeatedly knocked websites offline worldwide, and some customers attempted to temporarily...
A European DDoS mitigation provider has been struck by an unprecedented attack, with traffic volumes peaking at 1.5 billion packets per second. The massive wave originated from thousands of compromised IoT devices and MikroTik...
In its latest Fastly Threat Insights report, researchers analyzed more than 6.5 trillion monthly web requests to uncover emerging patterns in AI bot traffic. This rapidly expanding segment of automated systems is already exerting...