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News 01-31-2015

This Month in SSL: January 2015

Mark Santamaria

Here is our latest news roundup of articles about network and SSL security. to see the whole series.

SSL & Encryption News

  • Google Chrome 40 was released on January 23, which means we’re only one version away from the which is scheduled for version 41.
  • announced that they will soon not trust 1024-bit SSL root certificates.
  • and will be included in Google Chrome in February. ÃÛÌÒTV is the first and currently to operate a Certificate Transparency log.

Data Security

  • Ladar Levision, founder of the now defunct Lavabit email service, is working on a new email project that .
  • Gogo in-flight Internet sets up .
  • 2014 was fraught with data breaches, but the upside could mean .
  • President Obama’s brings cybersecurity into the national spotlight (the full transcript can be found ).
  • Missed the kick-off for Data Privacy Day? .
  • discusses the Internet of Things, its benefits and risks, and efforts to secure it.

Vulnerabilities

  • Four updates released by fix multiple moderate to low risk vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL.
  • that they will be disabling SSL 3.0 in Azure storage on February 20, 2015.
  • found in Java are addressed with Oracle's new updates, the updates also disable SSL 3.0 by default.
  • Qualys discovered a major vulnerability in Linux systems known as the . GHOST allows an attacker access to a system without needing system credentials.
  • for two zero-day vulnerabilities found in the Adobe Flash Player.

Malware

  • A , disguised as a fax tricks thousands in South America and Eastern Europe.

Data Breaches

  • , resulting in 20 million usernames and email addresses being stolen.
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