The recent Superfish incident has raised more concerns that SSL/TLS connections of users can be intercepted, inspected, and re-encrypted using a private root certificate installed on the user system. In effect, this is a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack carried out within the user’s own system. We believe that site owners adopting extended validation (EV) certificates would help…
Read MoreEarlier today, Google researchers Bodo Möller, Thai Duong, and Krzysztof Kotowicz released a paper discussing a serious bug in SSL 3.0 that allows attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks and decrypt the traffic between Web servers and end users. For example, if you’re shopping online with your credit card, you may think that your information is secure…
Read MoreOpenSSL has recently released six security updates addressing vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL. As of this writing, there is no reported exploit leveraging these vulnerabilities in the wild. The security patches cover the following vulnerabilities: SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) DTLS recursion flaw (CVE-2014-0221) DTLS invalid fragment vulnerability (CVE-2014-0195) SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2014-0198) SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS session injection…
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