With the New Year celebrations safely behind us, it’s time to look forward and plan for 2015. Before we can do that, however, we need to spend a few minutes to remember the vulnerabilities of 2014 and what we can take away from these. Every year there are several zero-days and tons of undisclosed vulnerabilities fixed…
Read MorePatches to fix the POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) vulnerability in SSL first discussed in October have been gradually put in place since its discovery. We’ve recently uncovered that some transport layer security (TLS) implementations may be vulnerable to a variant of the same POODLE attack. This means that secure connections protected via TLS can, in certain conditions, be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle…
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…
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