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Microsoft to announce TCP DoS patch today?

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Oct 23, 20081 min

Microsoft has announced that at 1 PM Pacific they will issue an “out of band” security patch.  Meaning, of course, that this is in addition to the regularily scheduled once-a-month patch Tuesday releases. 

For the best ever description of full TCP connection denial of service attacks read this post by Fyoder (really Gordon Lyon).

Update:  I was wrong. Here is a better link for following the progress of the TCP issues.  Thanks Robert! 

  Cisco has announced that they are checking into the recent claims of TCP vulnerabilities, maybe Microsoft is releasing a patch to address it. 

Stay tuned.  Follow me on Twitter.  

Richard Stiennon is chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 1,600 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and There Will Be Cyberwar: How the Move to Network-Centric Warfighting Set the Stage for Cyberwar. He is a member of the advisory board at the Information Governance Initiative and principal of TrueBit Cyber Partners. He also serves on the R2-TAC, the technical advisory committee for the Responsible Recycling standard for e-waste.

Stiennon was chief marketing officer for Fortinet Inc. and vice president of threat research at Webroot Software. Prior to that, he was vice president of research at Gartner Inc. He has a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.A. in war in the modern world from King’s College, London.

The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Richard Stiennon and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications Inc. or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.

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