Just a few quick links of interest today. First up are a few related to a serious vulnerability in TCP/IP that enables denial of service attacks against any platform running TCP/IP (so basically everything). Hopefully we’ll see patches from vendors before more details are made available on Oct. 17th.
New attacks reveal fundamental problems with TCP
Researchers caution against TCP/IP weakness
Update (Oct 2): This post from Fyodor, creator of Nmap, does a good job at explaining what this vulnerability might be, and putting it into perspective. Sounds like this may not be anything new.
Update (Oct 3): Robert Lee, one of the researchers behind the vuln discovery, responds to Fyodor’s post.
Last up, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced today that within a month MS will release a new operating system, currently being called “Windows Cloud”. Sounds interesting, I’m sure it will build upon their “Live” services platform, some of which I’ve covered in the past.
Filed under: Security, Vulnerabilities, Windows | Tagged: Links, Microsoft, sockstress, TCP/IP, Vulnerabilities, Windows Cloud
