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Where’s Jackie Treehorn when you need him? There’s a new browser exploit that’s making the rounds across the internet, and it’s capable of some pretty nasty stuff. Closely related to the FREAK exploit that we detailed a few months back, Logjam works its magic by using a main-in-the middle attack on the Diffie-Hellman...
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There's a time and place to get your freak on, unless you're talking about FREAK, the newly discovered encryption flaw that was initially thought to only affected Android and iOS devices. It turns out that the vulnerability also affects all supported releases of Windows. That's the bad news. And the...
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Bad news, Windows users. Remember that old bit of code that was causing new headaches for iOS and Android device owners? Dubbed "FREAK," it was initially thought that the exploit only affected some mobile browsers, but that's no longer the case. Microsoft has issued a security advisory (3046015) warning that FREAK...
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An old software flaw is giving Apple and Google new headaches. Browsers on some Android and iOS devices are susceptible to the “Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys” exploit known as FREAK. Both companies have developed fixes for the problem, but those fixes haven’t reached users yet.
The issue stems from an old...
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