A port is a numeric identifier for software that runs on a computer, like Web server or email server software. When a port is open, it's accepting connections from the outside world. It's not uncommon ...

Anywhere that multiple computing devices share a single Internet connection there is a router. Recently routers from Linksys, Netgear, Cisco and others were found to have a huge security flaw. This is ...

I'm writting a server program, don't know how far I'll get but I'm giving it a try. What I need to do is open a new port for each user (connection). How, programaticly, do I check if a certain port is ...

I've seldom seen ports actually go bad...usually they just disable themselves when they detect abnormalities, like late-abort-collisions and such. This is the default behavior, but can be modified on ...

Your laptop's USB version is hiding in Device Manager ...