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Ars describes it as "HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of servers

Impetus · 2015-05-20 20:58:56

Tens of thousands of HTTPS-protected websites, mail servers, and other widely used Internet services are vulnerable to a new attack that lets eavesdroppers read and modify data passing through encrypted connections, a team of computer scientists has found. More:…

20-05-2015 09:58PM

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Tens of thousands of HTTPS-protected websites, mail servers, and other widely used Internet services are vulnerable to a new attack that lets eavesdroppers read and modify data passing through encrypted connections, a team of computer scientists has found.

More:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/https-crippling-attack-threatens-tens-of-thousands-of-web-and-mail-servers/

For the avoidance of doubt nothing herein should be deemed to be a rant against Ryanair, or Aer Lingus or AIB's appalling internet security.

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