Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Businesses need to be aware that internet architecture could leave them open to a wide range of attacks, a new report has claimed.
Published by the UK-based Center for the Protection of National Infrastructure, the report claims that because the protocols governing the transit of data are outmoded, businesses could be vulnerable to network security breaches.
"The TCP/IP protocols were conceived during a time that was quite different from the hostile environment they operate in now," the document explains.
Over the years, the internet has evolved to a point where widespread flaws have been identified in this architecture, from stack level attacks to vulnerabilities in the fundamental coding of the protocols themselves.
As such, businesses need to be aware that networks developed in the future could be vulnerable to the kind of attacks that have plagued firms in the past.
Elsewhere, researcher Dan Kaminsky brought the issue of internet protocol security into sharp relief when he announced details of a DNS spoofing attack which could be used to redirect web traffic and intercept messages between email filters.
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