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Linux flaw allows hackers to hijack your internet communications - unpatched since 2012!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 72784901:MV8zMjYzMTA2XzU4MzI2Njc5Xzc4ODU0RTZG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 72796598:MV8zMjYzMTA2XzU4MzI2NjE0XzUwNkU5NTU0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 72784901:MV8zMjYzMTA2XzU4MzI2NTc0XzQ3MjhDOEI=] The part I put in bold previously made you sound like a Windows user trying to bash (no pun intended) Linux because of a vulnerability.[/quote] I am a Windows user and I am bashing Linux because it's laughable that this vulnerability has been unpatched since 2012. "Linux is secure" they said. [/quote] Let me guess. You're the guy who used to put a Java applet on every web page he owned back in the 90s to make it look like it was snowing because it was oh so cool, and you couldn't figure out why your awesome IE 3 kept dying because old Billy boy and his gang sold you on the security and awesome sauce your Win 95 box was supposedly covered in. Right? Am I right? I am. I know. Get a fucking clue. [/quote]
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have identified a weakness in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of all Linux operating systems since late 2012 that enables attackers to hijack users' internet communications remotely.
Such a weakness could be used to launch targeted attacks that track users' online activity, forcibly terminate a communication, hijack a conversation between hosts or degrade the privacy guarantee by anonymity networks such as Tor.
The UCR researchers ... identified a subtle flaw (in the form of 'side channels') in the Linux software that enables attackers to infer the TCP sequence numbers associated with a particular connection with no more information than the IP address of the communicating parties.
Affects Android too! Unpatched since 2012! Linux is safe, don't worry about security, they said!
The researchers have a short video demonstrating the attack :
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