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Linux flaw allows hackers to hijack your internet communications - unpatched since 2012!
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[ link to ucrtoday.ucr.edu (secure)] 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 : [ link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Quoting: Holy cow 72796598 You think there's such a thing as a 100% secure system? You must have the naivete of an OpenBSD worshiper stuck in the 90s.
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