The two discovered that so-called TCP initial sequence number (ISN) checking features that are common to many network devices, including firewalls, could allow an attacker to use a lightweight malware ...

A flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used by Linux since late 2012 poses a serious threat to internet users, whether or not they use Linux directly. That’s the key finding of a research ...

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 ...

A class of firewalls used by dozens of carriers worldwide may make smartphones vulnerable to hijacking. According to researchers at the University of Michigan, a feature found in many major firewall ...

A serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation in Linux systems can be used identify hosts communicating over the protocol and attack that traffic. A serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation ...

It may be easier than previously believed for crackers to exploit a long-known and potentially dangerous weakness in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used to drive Internet traffic, according ...

Researchers from University of California-Riverside have identified a weakness in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of all Linux operating systems that enables attackers to remotely hijack users ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-- 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 ...

OS fingerprinting is a process for determining the operating system a remote host computer is running, based on characteristics of the data returned from the remote host. This can be as simple as ...