Experts Race to Fix Serious Internet Flaw

[crabcake]

Computer security experts in the United States and Britain today confirmed that a new method has been identified that could make it easy for hackers to disrupt Internet communications worldwide, prompting a months-long, quiet effort to convince Internet service providers and other operators of the global telecommunications system to upgrade their systems.

The method that Watson identified takes advantage of an inherent design flaw in transmission control protocol (TCP) -- the language that all computers use to communicate on the Internet -- that could place ordinary computers at greater risk of attack.

anything else we wanna tell hackers before they get crackin'?

 

[Christy]

Originally posted by tatercake
Computer security experts in the United States and Britain today confirmed that a new method has been identified that could make it easy for hackers to disrupt Internet communications worldwide, prompting a months-long, quiet effort to convince Internet service providers and other operators of the global telecommunications system to upgrade their systems.



anything else we wanna tell hackers before they get crackin'?

Trust me when I say they aren't telling them anything they don't already know.

 

[Christy]

Oh, and the linkie no workie for me.

 

[crabcake]

Originally posted by Christy
Oh, and the linkie no workie for me.

try again