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The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is flawed, and needs to be fixed.
This is the conclusion of a new roadmap document, published earlier this week by the White House.
In other words, its the glue that holds the entire internet together.
But the protocol was designed back in 1989, and security was more of an afterthought.
As a result, BGP has been abused multiple times throughout the years in some high-profile attacks.
This caused a worldwide outage of YouTube for several hours.
The attackers then stole users' cryptocurrency by tricking them into entering their credentials on the fake site.
ViaThe Register
