{"id":194861,"date":"2024-08-21T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/computer-scientists-discover-vulnerabilities-in-a-popular-security-protocol"},"modified":"2024-08-21T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:23:33","slug":"computer-scientists-discover-vulnerabilities-in-a-popular-security-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/computer-scientists-discover-vulnerabilities-in-a-popular-security-protocol","title":{"rendered":"Computer scientists discover vulnerabilities in a popular security protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-scientists-discover-vulnerabilities-in-a-popular-security-protocol4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A widely used security protocol that dates back to the days of dial-up internet has vulnerabilities that could expose large numbers of networked devices to an attack and allow an attacker to gain control of traffic on an organization\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by University of California San Diego computer scientists investigated the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol and found a vulnerability they call Blast-RADIUS that has been present for decades. RADIUS, designed in 1991, allows networked devices such as routers, switches or mobile roaming gear to use a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/remote+server\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">remote server<\/a> to validate login or other credentials.<\/p>\n<p>This is a common set-up in enterprise and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/telecommunications+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">telecommunications networks<\/a> because it allows credentials to be centrally managed. As a result, RADIUS is a critical part of modern telecommunications and enterprise networks; in large enterprises, it may control access to tens of thousands of switches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A widely used security protocol that dates back to the days of dial-up internet has vulnerabilities that could expose large numbers of networked devices to an attack and allow an attacker to gain control of traffic on an organization\u2019s network. A research team led by University of California San Diego computer scientists investigated the Remote [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}