Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control ...

It's easy to miss neat features that get added to really broad products, because they don't get publicized as the most important thing about the release. But the under-publicized features can also be ...

Thomas Herbert's book The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems is a thorough guided tour of the Linux kernel TCP/IP implementation. Herbert builds his description of Linux networking, ...

Intel and Broadcom this week separately gave a peek into chip designs that tackle the problems that servers face in handling the TCP/IP stack. The traditional approach to the TCP/IP stack has been to ...

The latest in a long line of vulnerabilities in a key part of the networking stack threatens a major open-source operating system, printers and medical IoT devices. A set of vulnerabilities in TCP/IP ...

Although the Internet of Things (IoT) introduces remarkable ways to collect, manage, and apply data, it's also a huge vector for cyberattacks. One of the biggest vulnerabilities lies in embedded ...

Embedded devices, especially those designed for industrial automation that have long shelf lives, are known to use a mixture of in-house and third-party code that was created at a time when software ...

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...