[EXPLOIT] Serious Linux flaw allows hackers to hijack your internet connection
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.
Study Highlights Serious Security Threat to Many Internet Users.
The attack is fast and reliable, often taking less than a minute and showing a success rate of about 90 percent.
UCR researchers demonstrate how communications involving Linux and Android systems can be compromised quickly, easily and from anywhere. The researchers created a short video showing how the attacks works.
Source: https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/39030
By Sarah Nightingale on August 9, 2016
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A security threat identified by researchers at UC Riverside 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.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — 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 a conversation between hosts or degrade the privacy guarantee by anonymity networks such as Tor.
Led by Yue Cao, a computer science graduate student in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, the research will be presented on Wednesday (Aug. 10) at the USENIX Security Symposium in Austin, Texas. The project advisor is Zhiyun Qian, an assistant professor of computer science at UCR whose research focuses on identifying security vulnerabilities to help software companies improve their systems. (more)
This seems to be serious shit! A simple fix to prevent it is provided at the source