This month, we shift our focus to an important security issue. We will combine some information about IP addresses, the TCP three-way handshake, and the role of the firewall. This security issue is ...

The procedure that takes place between two TCP/IP nodes to establish a connection. Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back ...

Beta feature lets datacentre and ISP proxies emulate the TCP/IP fingerprint of Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS, ...

Much of today's Internet traffic takes the form of short TCP data flows that consist of just a few round trips exchanging data segments before the connection is terminated. The prototypical example of ...

Some of the most commonly-used firewalls are subject to a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a trusted IP connection. More on security: 20 hot IT ...

In the currently ongoing Linux kernel merge window, for the kernel which will become 2.6.33, a new TCP feature has been added. TCP cookie transactions [PDF] are meant to eliminate various kinds of ...