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Title: TCP Flaw Opens Linux Systems to Hijackers
Post by: HCK on August 12, 2016, 04:05:18 pm
TCP Flaw Opens Linux Systems to Hijackers

A flaw in the RCP 2159 specification the Internet Engineering Task Force developed to protect TCP against blind in-window attacks could threaten Android smartphones, as well as every Linux computer on the planet. The flaw is described in a paper a team of researchers presented at the 25th Usenix Security Symposium, ongoing in Austin, Texas, through Friday.

Source: TCP Flaw Opens Linux Systems to Hijackers (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83798.html?rss=1)