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Security advisories for Wednesday
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New attack bypasses HTTPS protection on Macs, Windows, and Linux
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HTTPS attack airs browsing habits of Linux, Mac and Windows users
A NEW ATTACK allows network operators, including anyone who owns a WiFi hotspot, to snoop on people's browsing habits and see any webpage they visit.
Fortunately, readers of the INQUIRER look at nothing more incriminating than the latest, hottest tech news, but other, less noble, netizens will no doubt be quaking in their onesies about now.
The attack works by bypassing the HTTPS encryption which is supposed to prevent this happening. HTTPS would normally prevent the operator seeing the URLs visited by users, but a new technique abuses Web Proxy Autodiscovery and exposes browser requests to any code the network owner wants to fling at it.
Itzik Kotler, CTO and co-founder, and Amit Klein, VP of security research, at security firm SafeBreach will demonstrate how the attack works at next week's Black Hat conference in a talk entitled Crippling HTTPS with Unholy PAC.
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Hackers can bypass HTTPS protection on Windows, Linux and Mac PCs
One of the main reason why all of us trust websites with HTTPS is because the surfing on such sites is invisible to hackers. Most of us are taught to believe that websites with HTTPS encryption are hacker and snooping proof.
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Flaw in HTTPS encryption enables network operators to eavesdrop on web users
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HTTPS bypass allows network operators to snoop on users' browsing habits
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GuardiCore Unveils Infection Monkey Open Source Cyber Security Testing Tool, Presents At Black Hat 2016
GuardiCore, a leader in internal data center security and breach detection, today made its Infection Monkey testing tool freely available to the public security community at large. Designed to test the resiliency of modern data centers against cyber attacks, the Infection Monkey was developed as an open source tool by GuardiCore's research group, led by seasoned cyber security researcher Ofri Ziv.
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