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 ...

It's easy to miss neat features that get added to really broad products, because they don't get publicized as the most important thing about the release. But the under-publicized features can also be ...

Internet and intranet connectivity is, now more than ever, considered a key technology enabling straightforward local and remote monitoring and control of a wide variety of devices. For product ...

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security vulnerabilities in the communications protocols used by industrial control systems could allow cyber attackers to tamper with or disrupt services, as well access data on the network. Dubbed ...

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, ...

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 ...

The CMX MicroNet TCP/IP stack has been ported to the Infinetix Ethernet daughter card for the Texas Instruments TMS320VC5416 DSK. CMX MicroNet is a small footprint TCP/IP software stack to provide ...