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FREAK Attack – Android and Apple Browsers at Risk

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 11 years
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  • 4 min read

A new Internet vulnerability is affecting popular SSL clients across the web. Eerily named FREAK, this flaw allows malicious parties and attackers to force servers to automatically downgrade to weakened ciphers. Once this is done, the attackers can easily crack all encrypted communications of these weakened servers through advanced Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks. If all that […]

Aftereffects of Heartbleed: Have You Changed these Passwords?

  • Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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  • 2 min read

Last week we wrote a blog about Heartbleed, the latest security bug that turned up around the world and caused global mayhem. The bug targeted the SSL encryption of web services that used OpenSSL, and this meant pretty much every major web service was affected. Moreover, security researchers subsequently found that this bug had been […]