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 study that’s scheduled to be presented Wednesday at the USENIX Security Symposium in Austin, Texas.
The TCP weakness, identified by researchers from the University of California at Riverside, enables attackers to hijack users’ internet communications completely remotely.
