• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-03-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Socat vulnerability shows that crypto backdoors can be hard to spot

Developers of the Socat networking tool have fixed a cryptographic flaw that left communications open to eavesdropping for over a year. The error is so serious that members of the security community believe it could be an intentional backdoor.Socat ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-03-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Socat vulnerability shows that crypto backdoors can be hard to spot

Developers of the Socat networking tool have fixed a cryptographic flaw that left communications open to eavesdropping for over a year. The error is so serious that members of the security community believe it could be an intentional backdoor.Socat ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-03-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Custom Web browser from Comodo poses severe security threat, researcher says

A customized version of Google’s Chrome browser developed by security vendor Comodo has a jaw-dropping flaw, according to a researcher.
Tavis Ormandy, an information security engineer with Google, analyzed Comodo’s ”Chromodo,” a browser based on the Chromium open-source code.
Chromodo is marketed as […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-03-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Custom Web browser from Comodo poses severe security threat, researcher says

A customized version of Google’s Chrome browser developed by security vendor Comodo has a jaw-dropping flaw, according to a researcher.
Tavis Ormandy, an information security engineer with Google, analyzed Comodo’s ”Chromodo,” a browser based on the Chromium open-source code.
Chromodo is marketed as […]

Read More