IEEE 1815, "IEEE Standard for Electric Power Systems Communications—Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3)," is now available. This is the definitive standard on DNP3. Based on standards originally set ...

Piscataway, N.J.-based IEEE, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, recently announced that work is underway for the formal recognition of Distributed Network ...

Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Security vendor Prolexic found ...

As demands in the access and enterprise networking markets increase, communication equipment designers are faced with the challenge of delivering advanced functionality in network equipment that can ...

Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS attacks observed in May by the ...

Facebook is no stranger when it comes to open sourcing its computing knowledge. Over the years, it has consistently created software and hardware internally, then transferred that wisdom to the open ...

Wireless reprogramming in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the process of uploading a new code image or relevant commands to sensor nodes or changing the functionality of existing code. As a WSN is ...