UK and US Issue Cyberalert on Internet Vulnerability

From the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), Vulnerability Advisory Notice 236929, issued April 20, 2004.

  • “The vulnerability described in this advisory affects implementations of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that comply with the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF’s) Requests For Comments (RFCs) for TCP…TCP is a core network protocol used in the majority of networked computer systems today.”
  • From the The United States-Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), cybersecurity document TA04-111A, Vulnerabilities in TCP, issued April 20, 2004.
  • From AP, Internet Technology Vulnerable to Hackers
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