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As almost everyone in IT knows, Ethernet traffic has inherently bursty traffic patterns. When real-time protocols like VoIP are added to the mix, traffic burstiness can become noticeable and result in network equipment buffer overloads along with IP packet loss. Burst protection capabilities are…

Wild Sample According to a Check Point report, there is a vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215) in the Huawei home router HG532. We caught this attack in the wild and found it dating back to mid-December. It's been exploited by a Mirai variant known as Satori (aka Okiru), which has reportedly…

The technology world has been shaken recently by Spectre and Meltdown, the two major vulnerabilities that literally affect almost ALL chips that are in production. Most intelligent devices need a chip to operate, which means “smart” devices are potentially vulnerable to these two chip flaws. This,…

In this blog, we explore the path to 5G, the factors that drove the industry to innovate, and the demand that is coming from exploding world population to stay connected in addition to the needs of machine to machine communication. Just to give you a perspective, the growth in data services and…

Research published by ESG this week has revealed that 51% of organizations have a problematic cyber security skills shortage. It’s yet another indicator that organizations could be heading towards a cyber-security skills crisis: back in 2014, ESG reported that in 2014, only 23% of enterprises said…

Why is security forensics important? In our digital economy, we have largely come to accept that a network breach is inevitable or is already underway. Given this reality, we must work to quickly find the source of the attack and take steps to block further data access or exfiltration.…

We've introduced a change to the BreakingPoint platform in our new December 8.40 release, which is now available for download on the Ixia support site. It's a small change that impacts a large part of our established user base, so we wanted to point it out as soon as we announced the release. In…

Hopefully by now you have heard the term “network visibility”, as it has become commonplace over the last year or so. If not, network visibility is simply the ability to see what your network is doing and how it is performing. You can get a longer narrative of the definition here and free resources…