New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware 242
yahoi writes "A new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack."
Bricking (Score:5, Funny)
That's the best they could come up with (Score:5, Funny)
It figures that when "bricking" might be remotely appropriate, they pick something worse.
It could have been remote bricking, BOIP(brick over IP), brick-and-run, packet bricking, warbricking.
Even brick-o-gram(landshark).
Sigh...
Re:thank you for another buzzword (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bricking (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:5, Funny)
Proof of concept (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. (Score:3, Funny)
He would probably be outright offended if he heard about Rockbox or other projects where people are *writing* their own firmware.
Re:New word overloading (Score:4, Funny)
This is why, Flash must die! [slashdot.org]
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:5, Funny)
The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful.
By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!
Herr Schmidt
Works in real life too ! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely yours,
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Re:Works in real life too ! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:thank you for another buzzword (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's the best they could come up with (Score:5, Funny)
Even brick-o-gram(landshark).
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah it's phucking stupid. The stupid phuckwits should take some time to phink of a better name.
Re:That's the best they could come up with (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pharphetched naming (Score:5, Funny)
Ouch (Score:3, Funny)
Re:source of the name (Score:2, Funny)