Posted on 07/09/2008 9:52:41 PM PDT by george76
Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.
Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way computers are routed to web page addresses.
"It's a very fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the Internet works," ...
"You'd have the Internet, but it wouldn't be the Internet you expect. (Hackers) would control everything."
The flaw would be a boon for "phishing" cons that involve leading people to imitation web pages of businesses such as bank or credit card companies to trick them into disclosing account numbers, passwords and other information.
"An attacker with the ability to conduct a successful cache poisoning attack can cause a nameserver's clients to contact the incorrect, and possibly malicious, hosts for particular services," CERT said.
"Consequently, web traffic, email, and other important network data can be redirected to systems under the attacker's control."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
You take care, too.
I am heading for the horizontal rack in a few minutes, too.
Gotta get up and meet a NEW week in the morning!
Have a SUPER week, my friend! :^D
Usenet is dead? That's news to me. :-)
Apparently some 10,000 of them are not being supported by their home ISPs any longer, including some active groups.
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