Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Freak Encryption Bug Cause Risk to millions of Users


Millions face risk from so called Freak encryption bug. In respond, Microsoft has released a security warning about a bug that could let attackers spy on supposedly secure communications, according to Digital Marketing Agency.
They have found an error that affects some of users of Android and Blackberry phones and Apple’s Safari web browsers. Microsoft’s company warned that users would face risk of losing data. Encryption and security expert Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered the Freak flaw
According to expert, “statistics gathered by a group set up to monitor the impact of the Freak flaw suggest about 9.5% of the web's top one million websites are susceptible to such attacks while monitoring group has also produced an online tool that lets people check if they are using a browser that is vulnerable to the flaw.”
To eliminate the vulnerability, Microsoft said it was working on a separate security update.




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