Around 35 years ago, Vint Cerf at and Bob Kahn at Arpa were designing a set of networking standards that were to become TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the underlying ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...

Ready or not, IPv6 is finally visible on the horizon... And researchers are already finding major security problems with it. IPv6, which is supported in some of the latest OSes and network devices, is ...

Two months ago, we published Everything you need to know about IPv6, telling you the following about firewalling IPv6 in relationship to the Network Address Translation that is common in today's IPv4 ...

At last month's CanSecWest conference, Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard showed that nearly all routers and the OSes from the BSD family (including Mac OS X) process the routing header type 0 (RH0) ...

Juniper Networks announced patches for a serious vulnerability in the handling of IPv6 packets that is says could leave its Junos OS and JUNOSe routers open to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...

Despite the advantages of IPv6, corporate users have resolutely avoided upgrading to it. But changes in the Net may soon force them to, as everything from handhelds to cell phones to refrigerators ...

It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...

Ready or not, IPv6 is finally visible on the horizon... And researchers are already finding major security problems with it. IPv6, which is supported in some of the latest OSes and network devices, is ...