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Core Internet Technology Is Vulnerable

April 20th, 2004 · Comments Off

AP reports:

The flaw affecting the Internet’s “tranmission control protocol,” or TCP, was discovered late last year by a computer researcher in Milwaukee, Paul “Tony” Watson, 36, who said he identified a method to reliably trick personal computers and routers into shutting down electronic conversations by resetting the machines remotely.
Watson plans to give a presentation Thursday [...]

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