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NETGEAR Router Misconfiguration Opens The Door For Remote Attacks

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Tenable’s Zero Day Research Team began investigating NETGEAR’s Nighthawk router after reviewing the target list for the Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) Pwn2Own Toronto contest. Pwn2Own is a hacking competition where contestants are challenged with exploiting widely used software and devices using zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Optimizing Long?—?Haul TCP Throughout

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Haul TCP Throughout First Published: August 1, 2012, By Simon Karpen, Technical Consultant Background TCP, or Transmission Control Protocol, is the primary layer-4 communication protocol for file copies, database synchronization, and related tasks over the WAN. To enable selective acknowledgments on a Linux host: sysctl –w net.ipv4.tcp_sack=1

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