Top-level domains are the air-traffic controllers of the Internet, routing requests for web sites to the proper numerical server address.
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The tactic uses an exploit in the Internet's routing protocols to fool users into visiting their machine.
Human nature and the internet are very good at routing round obstacles, be they physical, legal, or moral.
If you knew how to control it, the Internet was a way of routing electricity, redirecting fleets of trucks, and turning security cameras on or off.
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Some weaknesses, already well-known to hackers, foreign governments and, most likely, jihadists, have been exposed in two areas: the Domain Name System that VeriSign oversees and the Border Gateway Protocol, which governs how Internet service providers and large networks exchange routing information.
Switches--the glue that holds computer networks together, routing communications among PCs, servers and the internet--are a little trickier.
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The Internet, by contrast, is a connectionless network designed for routing packets of data.
Such services, which make possible very cheap (or even free) calls by routing part or all of each call over the internet, have forced traditional telecoms firms to cut their prices.
The Internet, "appears to have survived a severe test of the adaptable traffic routing concepts it embodies, " the company said.
While resilient, the Internet suffers from a glaring vulnerability: the impact of spurious Border Gate Protocol (BGP) routing.
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