http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ssl-web-security-protocol-compromised-by-researchers/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:41:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ssl-web-security-protocol-compromised-by-researchers/#comment-61395 Joseph A'Deo Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:07:15 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=61744#comment-61395 Agreed that this needs fixin', but at VeriSign we don't see this as "Earth shattering" (to use Tim Callan's words). The vulnerability will mostly be a development issue, and since there's no way credentials or sensitive info could get hijacked there's no need for consumers to be too concerned. Of course, the larger, more valid issue is that browsers are in constant need of updating where security is concerned...and one should always do their banking and shopping on robustly encrypted sites (for example, those that use extended validation ssl). Agreed that this needs fixin', but at VeriSign we don't see this as “Earth shattering” (to use Tim Callan's words). The vulnerability will mostly be a development issue, and since there's no way credentials or sensitive info could get hijacked there's no need for consumers to be too concerned. Of course, the larger, more valid issue is that browsers are in constant need of updating where security is concerned…and one should always do their banking and shopping on robustly encrypted sites (for example, those that use extended validation ssl).

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