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 ...

Part I of this article discussed tcpdump, a command-line utility that sniffs network traffic. Now let's see what it can do. Scenario 1: Established Telnet Connection Using tcpdump we can analyze the ...

See what process is using a TCP port in Windows Server 2008 Your email has been sent Windows administrators sometimes have to track down network traffic or errant processes and then match that to ...

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 ...

Digital marketers live in a land of initialisms. SEO, SEM, PPC, OMG. So when digital marketers are told there’s one more initialism they need to care about, well, consider it a drop of water in the ...

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 ...

I'd like to get a list of all processes using network (TCP/IP) bandwidth, sortable by PID, process name, bandwidth usage, etc. (like Activity Monitor or "top" do for CPU/RAM usage).<BR><BR>A GUI tool ...