Sunday 22 February 2009

Researcher demonstrates SSL attack

A security researcher has demonstrated a way to hijack Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) sessions to intercept login data. Moxie Marlinspike, who spoke at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, explained how to subvert an SSL session by performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

The anarchist researcher explained in...

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-271389.html

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