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Message Subject 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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