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[ NNSquad ] 90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find
90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find http://j.mp/JCVIZ7 (ars technica) "Less than 10 percent of the most popular websites offering Secure Socket Layer protection are hardened against known attacks that could allow hackers to decrypt or tamper with encrypted traffic, researchers said Thursday. The grim figure was generated by SSL Pulse, a website that monitors the effectiveness of the 200,000 most popular websites that use SSL, also known as Transport Layer Security, to protect e-mail and other sensitive data from being snooped on while in transit. The product of a group of SSL experts from Google, Twitter, PayPal, Qualys and other firms, SSL Pulse systematically scans all subdomains of the top-ranked sites as measured by Alexa for pages that use the protocol to prevent man-in-the-middle eavesdropping. By examining the top 200,000 SSL-enabled sites, the researchers aim to give a snapshot of the overall health of SSL protection, which is offered by an estimated 1.5 million sites in total." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad