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 data transfer in a TCP/IP network is usually block-based. From a programmer’s point of view, sending data means issuing a series of “send data block” requests. On a system level, sending an ...

The NUCLEUS:13 vulnerabilities can allow remote code execution or denial of service attacks. Billions of devices could be affected. Security researchers have uncovered serious vulnerabilities in the ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

Researchers today published details about a suite of 13 vulnerabilities in the Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) from Siemens that powers devices used in the medical, industrial, automotive, ...

Security analysts at Forescout Research and JFrog Security Research have discovered 14 vulnerabilities in NicheStack, a proprietary TCP/IP stack used in a wide range of operational technology (OT) ...

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 ...