Tag: vpn
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By removing VPNs from its Chinese App Store, Apple turns its biggest security asset against its users
A little over a month ago, Apple ‘s iPhone celebrated its tenth birthday. The iPhone has been one of the biggest commercial success stories ever, but it has also been a great success from a security point of view: malware targeting its iOS operating system remains extremely rare. iPhone is 10 years old today. After…
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By removing VPNs from its Chinese App Store, Apple turns its biggest security asset against its users
A little over a month ago, Apple ‘s iPhone celebrated its tenth birthday. The iPhone has been one of the biggest commercial success stories ever, but it has also been a great success from a security point of view: malware targeting its iOS operating system remains extremely rare. iPhone is 10 years old today. After…
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Weak keys and prime reuse make Diffie-Hellman implementations vulnerable
‘Logjam’ attack possibly used by the NSA to decrypt VPN traffic. A group of researchers have discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the way the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol is deployed and have demonstrated an attack (dubbed ‘ Logjam ‘) that exploits these vulnerabilities. Diffie-Hellman is used by two entities (typically referred to as Alice…