Facebook CSRF Tokens in Heavy Rotation to Ward off BREACH

The BREACH attack was the talk of Black Hat last summer. It was disclosed less than two months after the first Snowden leaks and helped renew focus on the security of online communication and the protocols guarding ecommerce and messaging. What BREACH did was throw a wrench into cross-site reques...

Answers is vulnerable to BREACH (SSL/HTTP gzip) attack

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-47215. panel This is an external report, and not a high priority - certainly much lower impact than ANSWERS-648. This issue was...

Answers is vulnerable to BREACH (SSL/HTTP gzip) attack

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-47215. panel This is an external report, and not a high priority - certainly much lower impact than ANSWERS-648. This issue was...

Answers is vulnerable to BREACH (SSL/HTTP gzip) attack

This is an external report, and not a high priority - certainly much lower impact than ANSWERS-648. This issue was reported by Nakul Mohan , 11 May - the email is too long to reproduce here. An attacker with the ability to: Inject partial chosen plaintext into a victim's requests Measure the size...

Answers is vulnerable to BREACH (SSL/HTTP gzip) attack

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-47215. panel This is an external report, and not a high priority - certainly much lower impact than ANSWERS-648. This issue was...

Matthew Green on Crypto Advances, the BREACH Attack and Whether the Longevity of the RSA Algorithm

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the crypto advances in recent years, the BREACH attack revealed at Black Hat and whether it’s time to start moving away from the RSA algorithm. Download: digitalunderground121 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

BREACH Compression Attack Steals HTTPS Response Secrets

A serious attack against ciphertext secrets buried inside HTTPS responses has prompted an advisory from Homeland Security. The BREACH attack is an offshoot of CRIME, which was thought dead and buried after it was disclosed in September. Released at last week’s Black Hat USA 2013, BREACH enables a...