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SSL broken, again, in POODLE attack
2014-10-15 07:22:19| Wireless - Topix.net
From the researchers that brought you BEAST and CRIME comes another attack against Secure Sockets Layer , one of the protocols that's used to secure Internet traffic from eavesdroppers both government and criminal. Calling the new attack POODLE-that's "Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption"-the attack allows a man-in-the-middle, such as a malicious Wi-Fi hotspot or a compromised ISP, to extract data from secure HTTP connections.
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Category:Telecommunications
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