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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Mozilla mulls blocking Java plug-in to thwart dangerous SSL attacks

Recently, security researchers revealed a rather frightening browser exploit that allowed them to decrypt data that had been secured using SSL. Dubbed BEAST, the attack was demonstrated using a Java applet to bypass browser safeguards and lay intercepted encrypted communications bare. Since it was a Java shortcoming that allowed the browser to be compromised, Mozilla [...]


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