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Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc () comcast net>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:28:16 -0700
Does anyone know WTF they are trying to say in this AP article, "Core Internet Technology Is Vulnerable," http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20040420/ap_on_hi_te/internet_threat It sounds like they are talking about a sequence number guessing attack on TCP BGP sessions? Sequence number prediction isn't really a new attack, but the story says, "Experts previously maintained such attacks could take between four years and 142 years to succeed because they require guessing a rotating number from roughly 4 billion possible combinations. Watson said he can guess the proper number with as few as four attempts, which can be accomplished within seconds." Hmmm... Four attempts... And the story makes it sound like a cross-platform attack, not a bug in a particular OS's ISN generation. FUD or is there something here? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark () alum mit edu | cjclark () jhu edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc () freebsd org _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Crist J. Clark (Apr 20)
- RE: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Dave D. Cawley (Apr 20)
- RE: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Frank Knobbe (Apr 20)
- Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Michal Zalewski (Apr 20)
- Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Exibar (Apr 20)
- RE: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Alerta Redsegura (Apr 20)
- RE: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Jade E. Deane (Apr 20)
- Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Alexander Bochmann (Apr 21)
- Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Pavel Kankovsky (Apr 20)
- RE: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Dave D. Cawley (Apr 20)
- Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 Exibar (Apr 20)
- Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00 james (Apr 20)