‘Google Warns of Design Vulnerability in SSL 3.0’ – ‘Mashable’
Christina Warren says, “Google on Tuesday announced that it has discovered a “vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0”
The vulnerability, which Google announced on its security blog and detailed in a security advisory [PDF link], “allows the plaintext of secure connections to be calculated by a network attacker.”
Google’s Bodo Möller discovered the issue, along with Googlers Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz.
This isn’t the first time SSL — the security protocol that the Internet uses for encryption and security — has had issues. Earlier this year, a years-old bug in OpenSSL known asHeartbleed was publicly revealed”.
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