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A group of American university researchers have broken key 4G LTE protocols to generate fake messages, snoop on users, and forge user location data.
Those working on the coming 5G protocols should take note: the vulnerabilities are most worrying because they're written into the LTE protocols, and could therefore have an industry-wide impact.
Identified by Purdue University's Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino with the University of Iowa's Omar Chowdhury, the protocol procedures affected are:
- Attach – the procedure that associates a subscriber device with the network (for example, when you switch the phone on);
- Detach – occurs when you switch your device off, or if the network disconnects from the device (for example because of poor signal quality, or because the phone can't authenticate to the network); and
- Paging – this protocol is part of call setup, to force the device to re-acquire system information, and in emergency warning applications.
The researchers' paper (PDF) describes an attack tool called LTEInspector, which the researchers said found exploitable vulnerabilities that resulted in "10 new attacks and nine prior attacks” (detecting old vulnerabilities helped the researchers validate that the new vulns were genuine).
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:22PM (7 children)
While it's a shortening of vulnerability, vuln also means wound/harm so it's appropriate for software defects.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vuln [wiktionary.org]
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/vulns [thefreedictionary.com]
compiling...
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday March 06 2018, @06:18PM (6 children)
Well, your harm/would usage is listed as an obsolete verb (not applicable), and the "shortening" listing is simply a note documenting the misuse in question. I am not saying it's inappropriate to use "in relation to software defects." It's not appropriate to use in communications to any audience wider than two nerds using made-up words.
Sure, I am a nerd, and I make up words, but I don't publish articles written from them. Different audience, difference scope, different vocabulary.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:48PM (5 children)
Language evolves. If someone uses a word and someone else understands it, it's a word.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:13PM (3 children)
If that is true, people would immediately derive meaning from 'words' like:
afluenza
jerkov
mansplainer
If what you say is true, then I would expect people to immediately infer meaning from these words, and potentially that these words would come into common use and therefore become actual words. Just not yet appearing in the Oxford dictionary. Like Perfory [urbandictionary.com]. But most people here probably don't remember perfory due to excessive use of laser or inkjet.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:22PM
Not everyone knows all words, and many words require context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy [wikipedia.org]
BTW, Google happily found those words that you listed.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:28PM (1 child)
Also:
"Vuln
Abbreviation for "vulnerability." Another way to refer to bugs or software flaws that can be exploited by hackers."
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg79v4/hacking-glossary [vice.com]
So, not the first time or place the word has been used, and people know what it means. You are, of course, free to not like it, much as I hate the usage of "dampening" to mean "damping", or "less people" instead of "fewer people", but we're both fighting a loosing battle.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:35PM
Our language is defined by shared opinion. I am sharing mine and I encourage you to share yours, even if we are outnumbered by people who believe that "not tight" and "not win" and "misplace" are interchangeable L-words.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:29PM
Examples of desirable and undesirable [soylentnews.org] language evolution appear in a different comment in this thread.
The TL;DR is that just because something frequently happens, does not always mean that it's a good thing. Often, it isn't.