Network geeks among you may remember my article, “Linux Socket Filter: Sniffing Bytes over the Network”, in the June 2001 issue of LJ, regarding the use of the packet filter built inside the Linux ...

Packet capture is a mechanism that copies packets received from thenetwork and pushes them into user space making the frame available toan application for further analysis. These applications can be ...

Linux kernel development follows a rapid pace with new releases every six to ten weeks. Among the key networking features in Linux 6.4 are multiple improvements to improve traffic flow, extended ...

Organizations running large fleets of production Linux computers are being urged to apply new patches to stop remote attackers from crashing the machines. Three flaws affect how the Linux kernel ...

A new Linux kernel rootkit dubbed ‘syslogk’ has been spotted in the wild by Avast cybersecurity researchers. According to an advisory by David Álvarez and Jan Neduchal, syslogk would be able to cloak ...

Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably. The technique is one of a number of new ...