Don't FREAK out about the latest security warnings<article>
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FREAK is last week’s worry, but installing untrusted applications is a perennial worry. It’s a two-fer (or two-fear) in this column, about security issues new and old.</p><h2>Super FREAKy</h2>
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Apple released updates this week for a security vulnerability known as FREAK. FREAK allowed a malicious party to force a weaker encryption protocol to be used between about one-third of web servers with security credentials and many secure web clients and commonly used software libraries. That weaker protocol could be cracked cheaply and relatively quickly to reveal the contents of a session between a browser and web server. (You can read the full details about the attack in
Jeremy Kirk’s news report.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2896092/dont-freak-out-about-the-latest-security-warnings.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Don't FREAK out about the latest security warnings
