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Researchers disclose deadly cross-platform TCP/IP flaws

arstechnica.com — DoS attacks have been around ever since the first caveman hacker decided to attack the first caveman network engineer's TCP/IP network. Much like sharks, DoS attacks have survived the passage of time by being very good at what they do, and while they've spawned offspring (direct denial-of-service attacks, or DDoS), the original version remains aliv

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  • clickwir, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2I almost wish they would just release the programs and let the public have some fun. Force the hand of the vendors if they won't respond. I sure hope this reaches the right developers and Ubuntu/Linux gets patched first.

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  • inajeep, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Deadly? I almost buried this for the caveman reference too. Damn you insurance company I shall not name

    Very interesting article though full of things to be frightened about. Basically a tool set that can crack any tcp stack. What does this mean? I'll have to wait for the more knowledgeable to tell me.

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