Major TCP Security Flaw Impacts Internet Traffic Integrity

For the second time in as many months, researchers have found a serious flaw in one of the key pieces of the Internet's software backbone. Security vendor Guardent on Monday announced it has identified a potentially huge problem in the inner . . . For the second time in as many months, researchers have found a serious flaw in one of the key pieces of the Internet's software backbone. Security vendor Guardent on Monday announced it has identified a potentially huge problem in the inner workings of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), one half of the TCP/IP standard that enables Internet traffic to flow across heterogeneous networks.

In January, researchers identified several holes in the BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) software that runs most of the Internet's name servers.

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