
SSL 3.0 Vulnerability Discovered. Read How To Protect Your Browser
Another week, another serious vulnerability discovered. This time Google has discovered an exploit in SSL 3.0 protocol, named POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption), that allows an attacker to calculate the plain text of secure connections. Apparently the bug has been present since 1996, when SSL was originally released by Netscape. Although SSL was replaced by TLS and other newer… Read more →