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| Bodo Möller / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google discloses SSL 3.0 vulnerability POODLE, recommends clients and servers support TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV to prevent protocol downgrade attacks, says Chrome does — This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback — Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0.
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| Adam Langley / ImperialViolet: |
POODLE detailed; how to disable SSL 3.0 in Chrome, Firefox; disabling it on servers may break IE6 — POODLE attacks on SSLv3 — My colleague, Bodo Möller, in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz (also Googlers), just posted details about a padding oracle attack against CBC-mode ciphers in SSLv3.
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| Richard Barnes / Mozilla Security Blog: |
Firefox will disable SSL 3.0 in version 34, to be released Nov. 25 — The POODLE Attack and the End of SSL 3.0 — Summary — SSL version 3.0 is no longer secure. Browsers and websites need to turn off SSLv3 and use more modern security protocols as soon as possible, in order to avoid compromising users' private information.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm buys Bluetooth and GPS chip maker CSR for $2.5B — Qualcomm announced that it has agreed to acquire chip maker CSR for $2.5 billion in cash as part of its continuing strategy to dominate the electronics in mobile devices. — San Diego, Calif.-based Qualcomm will add a wide variety …
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| Danielle Friedman / NBC News: |
Facebook and Apple to cover up to $20K in egg-freezing treatments for female employees — Facebook and Apple Now Pay for Women to Freeze Eggs — While techniques and success rates are improving, there's no guarantee the procedure will lead to a baby down the road.
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| Kyle Wagner / Deadspin: |
The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate — Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate … | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Apple Asks Court's Permission to Challenge GT Bankruptcy — In Secret — Apple is seeking court permission to lodge its objections to GT Advanced Technologies' bankruptcy filing in secret, to protect details of its confidential agreements with its would-be supplier of sapphire crystal.
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| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
How Seth Weintraub, an IT professional, started one of the biggest Apple news blogs, 9to5Mac — How An IT Guy Stranded In Paris Turned Himself Into The Most Powerful Source Of Apple News — There's one website that breaks more Apple news than any other — 9to5Mac.| Sunil Paul / Sidecar: |
Sidecar to legally operate at San Francisco Airport, will begin within 30 days — Sidecar and SFO Reach Milestone Agreement — Today, we're proud to announce a milestone agreement with San Francisco International Airport (SFO) that allows Sidecar to legally operate at the airport.
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Snapchat says public API is coming, third-party apps using the private API “can't be trusted”, pledges to improve security — Third-Party Applications and the Snapchat API — Over the past few days we've fielded a number of questions about our API and third-party applications …
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
NY state says bitcoin software developers don't need license — (Reuters) - New York will not require digital currency software developers to obtain a “BitLicense” to operate in the state, said Benjamin Lawksy, superintendent of financial services for the state of New York, on Tuesday.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
SAP Cloud Apps Will Now Run on IBM's SoftLayer — German business software company SAP and computing giant IBM are teaming up in the cloud. SAP says it has tapped IBM's SoftLayer service to run its suite of cloud-ready business applications. — The plan calls for SAP to let its customers run …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A First Look Deep Inside Amazon Game Studios — To trace the beginnings of Amazon's interest in the game business, you need to go back a long way—at least to the holiday season of 1999. That's when the company, best known at the time as “Earth's largest bookstore,” began offering video games … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
H.264 support arrives in Firefox, thanks to Cisco — but H.264 web videos still won't play — Firefox is now supporting H.264 for web-based video chat, thanks to a binary component provided by Cisco — but H.264 web video streams still can't be played natively in the browser.
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Andreas Gal, CNET, eWeek, VentureBeat, Cisco Blog and BetaNews
| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Microsoft fixes vulnerability used in ‘Sandworm Team’ attacks … What do NATO, the Ukraine and European telecom companies all have in common? They've all been targeted by a hacking group using an undisclosed vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft patched today.
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Microsoft TechNet, 9to5Mac and Naked Security
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
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