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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year. If those false advertisements indicate that a better path is available than the legitimate path, traffic may be directed that way—only the path leads to malicious servers that could steal credentials, download malware, and execute other damaging activities.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

ForAllSecure

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé