Study highlights serious TCP security threat to many Internet users
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 14:31
in Mathematics & Economics
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 completely remotely. Such a weakness could be used to launch targeted attacks that track users’ online activity, forcibly terminate a communication, hijack […]