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[ PRIVACY Forum ] 90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits,
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:38:03 -0700
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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."
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