Survey Finds Secure Sites Not So Secure

A new project that was setup to monitor the quality and strength of the SSL implementations on top sites across the Internet found that 75 percent of them are vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack and that just 10 percent of the sites surveyed should be considered secure. The SSL Pulse project, set ...

90% SSL sites vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack

90% of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL Secure Sockets Layer attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement TIM, a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving Internet security, privacy and reliability...