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 ...

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 ...

Cloudflare processes 60 million HTTP requests per second, of which about 70% are TCP connections and about 30% are UDP/QUIC connections. Of these, only about 80% of data exchanges are actually ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month, we shift our focus to an important security issue. We will combine some information ...

I have a VM in EC2 that has been running dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 successfully for over a year now, but things have recently broken on the IPv6 side. My VPC has a /20 block in RFC1918 space, and a /64 ...

Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article [Chris ...