Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Security vendor Prolexic found ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover malware, vulnerabilities, data breaches and security research. Twenty-five years is a very long time in the world of ...
This piece explores whether international humanitarian law (IHL) in general applies to computer network attacks (CNA) and what specific prohibitions or limitations on the use of computer network ...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles covering Mac OS X Server networking topics. AppleTalk is one of the two protocols typically used in today’s Mac networks. The other is TCP/IP, ...
Another day, another global malware attack made possible by a Microsoft security hole. Once again, attackers used hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which were stolen ...
Simply put, computer networking is the study of how computers can be linked to share data. The concept of connecting computers dates back to the 1960s, when the Department of Defense led the first ...
Figure 1. A typical iSCSI SAN. There has been much discussion (and a good dose of confusion) about the term “iSCSI” over the last year. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many ...
Local networks are secretly powerful when the internet fails—here's proof ...