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BEAST and TLS/SSL Security: What It Means For Users and Web Admins

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk on how “SSL is broken”. This came on the heels of two researchers, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong, releasing what they called Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS, or BEAST. If you believe some of the reports, secure connections as we know are worthless.

This issue may seem quite complex for …

Secure web browsing cracked by BEAST

A pair of researchers have unveiled a serious new attack on web browser security.

The researchers used this week’s Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires to unveil a new tool that attacks TLS and SSL, the cryptographic protocols used to establish secure web connections.

The ability to crack encrypted web traffic removes the safety net …

ekoParty 2011

I have been in Buenos Aires attending the ekoParty security conference, which has recently exploded in popularity. This year saw more than 1,000 attendees. ekoParty is a premier technical conference in Latin America (think Defcon/Blackhat) that showcases presenters from around the world, with the bulk of them local to Argentina. The conference runs three days …