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With that out of the way, what SSL/TLS does is take the standard TCP handshake that connects a browser to a website (request sent from browser to website, acknowledgment sent from website to browser, ...

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 ...

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) constitute the vast majority of packets the average Internet user sends and receives. Inevitably, errors will at some point work ...

Not sure if this makes more sense here, or in the boardroom. What are some good hypotheticals to demonstrate a working knowledge of TCP/IP- I've asked a couple of these before: * Describe in as much ...

Last week we discussed ports in some detail. This week, even more detail. To understand how ports work and the ways they behave, we need to understand how TCP/IP functions. Ports are numbered from one ...

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 ...

In business, you may shake hands one or two times a day, but your computer makes hundreds if not thousands in the same time frame. Think of handshake protocol as a greeting. While your computer won't ...

Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 10 v1607 and later offers a feature that can make web pages load faster. To activate this feature, you will have to enable TCP Fast Open, which is an extension of the ...