Blog: October 2014

POODLE

I have been meaning to get back on the blogging horse for some time, and what better way than with a new SSL vulnerability.

POODLE was announced this morning. It's a 5/10 on the panic scale, but both users and sysadmins should take action now.

This one isn't particularly exciting compared to the recent sky-is-falling heartbleed and shellshock - instead of giving away all your secrets and/or shell access to anyone with curl, the worst-case scenario with POODLE is that someone can read your SSL traffic; still bad, but for most people running small sites it's ...

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