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 ...

Thirty-three vulnerabilities in four open-source TCP/IP stacks may affect the security of millions of internet-connected devices from 150 manufacturers, according to researchers from Forescout. The ...

A long-known implementation error in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that network devices use to communicate with each other continues to persist in TCP/IP ...

Extended support is provided for Infineon 16-bit 80C16x and STMicroelectronics ST10 series processors with three new real-time operating systems (CMX-RTX, CMX-Tiny+ and CMX-RTXS) and two specialized ...

Stockholm, Sweden — New versions of the IPLITE and IPNET TCP/IP IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks are now available for Freescale's PowerQUICC III communications processor. These stacks deliver ...

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 ...

Bletchley Park firm 4Links has created a hardware TCP/IP stack that runs in an FPGA. What is TCP/IP? Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) was devised as a standard for linking ...

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 ...

In a previous article, we explained how you can use the sendfile() syscall to reduce the overhead of data transfer from a disk to a network. Now, we’re going to cover another aspect of network ...