It was a case of another month, another flaw revelation this week. Although we have seen zero-days in 2015 primarily affecting Adobe's Flash software, this week a story picked up from the great threats of 2014 with 2015's FREAK. The “Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys” flaw uses an encryption protocol from the early 1990s to intercept vulnerable clients and servers, and force them to use ‘export-grade’ cryptography, which can then be decrypted. Matthew Green, cryptographer and...
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