Information Technology
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SNMP and TCP/IP are not competing protocols. TCP/IP provides the network foundation, while SNMP uses that foundation to monitor and manage devices.
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ICMP is the control-and-diagnostics protocol behind familiar tools such as ping and much of traceroute. It reports reachability, errors and expired packet lifetimes without carrying normal application data.
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Post-quantum cryptography replaces quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms with new standards designed to resist future quantum attacks.
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Trezor is reducing its authorized reseller network as a preventive supply-chain security measure after recent hardware-wallet tampering incidents.
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Elastic Security Labs uncovered a fake Web3 accelerator using malicious npm packages, attacker-controlled AI infrastructure and fabricated security audits to target crypto founders.
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ZEUS 13.2.3 updates the Bitcoin Lightning wallet with embedded LND 0.21.4, rust-lightning 0.2.7 security fixes, and additional hardening.
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Marvell has launched a new generation of AI-rack connectivity chips that pushes 1.6 Tbps active electrical cable links beyond six meters while adding a separate 3.2 Tbps retimer for on-board and backplane connections. The October 13 announcement introduces the second-generation Alaska A 1.6T AEC DSP and Alaska E 3.2T protocol-aware retimer. Both target 224G-per-lane AI…
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Qualcomm has introduced a new fixed-wireless platform that combines 5G Advanced, integrated non-terrestrial network support, agentic AI and tri-band Wi-Fi 8 in one broadband gateway architecture. The Dragonwing FWA Gen 6 Elite Platform, announced October 12 at Network X 2026, is built on Qualcomm’s X105 5G Modem-RF system and fifth-generation 5G AI Processor. Qualcomm says…
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Learn PROFINET basics for field technicians: controllers and devices, device names, DCP, GSDML files, real-time I/O, switches, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
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Why a Gigabit Ethernet link can suddenly negotiate at 100 Mbps—and how to isolate cable, termination, switch, NIC, and auto-negotiation problems.
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Why industrial controllers, HMIs, PLCs and other OT devices should stay off the public internet—and how segmentation, VPNs and jump hosts reduce physical-world cyber risk.
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Hackers remotely defrosted refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets, spoiling fresh and frozen food and turning a cyberattack into a physical-world supply-chain incident.
