New FREAK Attack Threatens Many SSL Clients

Posted by bob on Mar 5, 2015 4:35 AM EDT
Threatpost; By Dennis Fisher
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For the nth time in the last couple of years, security experts are warning about a new Internet-scale vulnerability, this time in some popular SSL clients. The flaw allows an attacker to force clients to downgrade to weakened ciphers and break their supposedly encrypted communications through a man-in-the-middle attack.

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