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Security updates for Thursday
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SHA-1 Deprecation: Pro, Con, or Extend?
I read Ryan's article about why SHA-1 should be deprecated faster and why we should veto the proposed extensions. It is an excellent explanation of what's going on. I highly recommend it (and look forward to the complete series when he publishes it):
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Legacy Verified: Legacy Solutions
While the previous post explored the historical context in which the SHA-1 deprecation fits, and in the many failures to respond adequately to known risks, it didn’t really address the actual Legacy Verified proposal made by CloudFlare and Facebook, and subsequently endorsed by Twitter, nor how it attempts to mitigate the concerns with continuing SHA-1 allocation.
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Let’s Encrypt Now Being Abused By Malvertisers
Encrypting all HTTP traffic has long been considered a key security goal, but there have been two key obstacles to this. First, certificates are not free and many owners are unwilling to pay; secondly the certificates themselves are not always something that could be set up by a site owner.
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Security Guide: How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker
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Linux.Encoder Authors Couldn’t Correctly Disguise Encryption Key
Renowned Security Software Company in Russia named Doctor Web happened to be first to detect as well as report one wholly working ransomware Trojan created to infect Linux computers. A sample named Linux.Encoder.1 recently showed quite resembling activity with the notorious CryptoWall ransomware. Fifty percent of the widely used AV engines of VirusTotal could not recognize the sample which broke new ground during the Linux domain. The malware chiefly concentrated on hijacking computers using Web servers as also encrypted critical folders utilized during Web-hosting as well as within Web-development ambience.
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