"It suffers from being very complicated," Steven Gibson says, trying to explain why he thinks a little-known feature of some operating systems could spell doom for businesses on the Internet. Gibson ...

A TCP/IP socket. The "raw" refers to the socket itself where one might program directly to the socket without going through the TCP/IP programming interface. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Microsoft's continued disabling of a Windows XP TCP/IP feature has prompted a security guru to claim Redmond was asking his peers to "pick their poison". Microsoft is using a new patch to block ...

'a piece of malware dubbed "Chaos" is infecting poorly secured systems by guessing weak passwords' Is that it, this is what currently passes for technology analysis. The year 2000 is calling and wants ...

Hey all,<P>I've written some code to ping. I have two versions, one that uses icmp.dll and one that uses raw sockets. Both work just fine.<P>The problem with raw sockets is that it must be run under ...

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...

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Browser makers are excited about a new technology called Web Sockets, but some are scrambling after an early version raised a security problem. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...