IP address spoofing

ARPAnet community, many of the final pieces of today’s Internet architecture were falling into place. January 1, 1983 saw the official deployment of TCP/IP as the new standard host protocol for ARPAnet (replacing the NCP protocol). The transition [RFC 801] from NCP to TCP/IP was a flag day event—all hosts were required to transfer over to TCP/IP as of that day. In the late 1980s, important extensions were made to TCP to implement host-based congestion control [Jacobson 1988]. The DNS, used to…

3.1 Understanding Cloud Computing (IBM, 2014 [17]) Cloud computing, often referred to as simply ‘the cloud’ is the delivery of on-demand computing resources everything from applications to data centres over the internet on a pay-for-use basis. Cloud computing is the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. The salient characteristics of cloud computing based on the definitions…