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Firefox Improves Privacy Protections With Encrypted Client Hello

Jan

2021

In 2018, just after Cloudflare turned on Encrypted SNI, Mozilla added support for encrypting the Transport Layer Security (TLS) SNI extension to Firefox Nightly. While aiming to better protect against eavesdropping, SNI was found to leak the identity of visited websites during the initial TLS handshake. An extension to TLS 1.3 and above, ESNI was […]

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Millions of embedded devices use the same hard-coded SSH and TLS private keys

Nov

2015

Thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices share the same hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) host keys or HTTPS (HTTP Secure) server certificates, a study found.By extracting those keys, hackers can potentially launch man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept and decrypt traffic between users and millions of devices.

Category Vulnerabilities Written by Cio 0 Comments

New RC4 Attack

Jul

2015

New research: “All Your Biases Belong To Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS,” by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens: Abstract: We present new biases in RC4, break the Wi-Fi Protected Access Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (WPA-TKIP), and design a practical plaintext recovery attack against the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. To empirically find new […]

Category Vulnerabilities Written by Schneier 0 Comments

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