iPhone/iPad user’s turn in the SSL bug spotlight

April 21, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

For those of you who read the security news, you know that this last 12 months has brought an amazing number of SSL bugs to the surface (see a few of my blog posts here and here and here). Now iPhone and iPad users have their turn to deal with an SSL bug. The bug, […]

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Researchers Find 600,000 Servers Use Duplicate Encryption Key

March 17, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

PC World is reporting that researchers, looking for servers that were susceptible to the FREAK attack, found that some manufacturers have taken a shortcut when it comes to security. First, FREAK is an attack that allows attackers to force a encryption session between a user and a server to use a very weak 512 bit […]

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