New internet security flaw discovered: Google researchers say ‘Poodle’ bug could give hackers access to your bank details…(Get Ready For A Cyber Attack On The Banks!!)
Poodle allows hackers to see data meant to be encrypted in plain text
This could allow access to accounts for email, banks and other services
Source of flaw is a widely-used, outdated encryption protocol, SSL 3.0
So far, no one has used the Poodle bug in SSL 3.0 to hack an account
Web users can opt switch to using a browser that doesn’t use SSL 3.0
‘If Shellshock and Heartbleed were Threat Level 10, thenPoodle is more like a 5 or a 6,’ said Tal Klein, vice president with cloud security firm Adallom
By Ellie Zolfagharifard
DailyMailUK
15 October 2014
A security bug in the widely-used software used to secure the internet has been discovered by three Google researchers.
The flaw, dubbed ‘Poodle’, could allow hackers to gain access to information that should be encrypted in plain text allowing them to takeover accounts for email, banking and other services.
Makers of web browsers and server software yesterday asked users to disable use of the source of the bug: an 18-year old encryption protocol known as SSL 3.0.
The discovery of ‘Poodle’ – which stands for Padding Oracle On Downloaded Legacy Encryption – is the third time this year that researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in popular web technology.
It follows the discovery of April’s ‘Heartbleed’ bug in OpenSSL and last month’s ‘Shellshock’ bug in a piece of Unix software known as Bash.
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