Apple Turns on BEAST Attack Mitigation by Default in Safari

Apple enabled a feature in its recent OS X Mavericks update that neutered the BEAST cryptographic attacks. BEAST is a two-year-old attack tool that exploits a vulnerability in TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 and could lead to an attacker stealing HTTPS cookies or hijacking browser sessions. Apple’s Safari...

OpenSSL version rollback vulnerability

Overview OpenSSL from OpenSSL Project contains a version rollback vulnerability. If a specific option is used on a server running OpenSSL, an attacker can force the client and the server to negotiate the SSL 2.0 protocol even if these parties both request TLS 1.0 protocol by crafting an attack on...

CVE-2005-2969

The SSL/TLS server implementation in OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7h and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8a, when using the SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING option, disables a verification step that is required for preventing protocol version rollback attacks, which allows remote attackers to force a client and server to u...