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Tag: tls

  • 1 in 500 secure connections use forged certificate

    For reasons ranging from relatively good, to actual malware. Researchers from Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have published a paper ( PDF ) in which they show that out of a sample of over 3 million secure connections to Facebook , 0.2% used a forged SSL certificate. SSL and its successor TLS are encryption protocols…

  • OpenSSL vulnerability lets attackers quietly steal servers’ private keys

    Security firm advises regenerating keys and replacing certificates on vulnerable servers. A very serious vulnerability in OpenSSL has caused panic among network administrators: CVE-2014-0160 allows an attacker to read the memory of a vulnerable server and thus obtain private encryption keys, passwords and other kinds of sensitive information. OpenSSL is a widely used open-source implementation…

  • 41% of spam sent via Rustock botnet

    Botnet spam back after short summer break. In its latest intelligence report, security firm MessageLabs reports that 41% of all spam is being sent through the Rustock botnet, an increase of 9% since April. The botnet sends an estimated 32 million spam emails per minute. Interestingly, the number of bots controlled by Rustock’s botherders has…