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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