POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) SSL vulnerability - seems we have to be worried about poodles now.
I confess to not really understanding much about this, but I'm sure that others on this forum will. Hereunder is some basic info and links. (And a big thank you to bookmarked in the Kobo Discounts thread who brought poodle to our attention
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Here's what Mozilla says:
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The POODLE attack can be used against any browser or website that supports SSLv3. This affects all current browsers and most websites. As noted above, only 0.3% of transactions actually use SSLv3. Though almost all websites allow connections with SSLv3 to support old browsers, it is rarely used, since there are very few browsers that don’t support newer versions of TLS.
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https://blog.mozilla.org/security/20...nd-of-ssl-3-0/
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10..._fixit_for_ie/
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Microsoft has issued new guidance on the POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) SSL vulnerability, including a one-click utility that can automatically disable SSL 3.0 in Internet Explorer.
The Fix It utility, which was released on Wednesday, is a reversible workaround for all versions of Redmond's browser from IE6 through IE11 – although sticking with buggy, ancient IE6 still really isn't a good idea.
"If you are currently using older versions of IE, such as IE 6, we recommend you upgrade to a newer browser as soon as possible, in addition to using the Fix it released today," Redmond said in a security advisory, while throwing in a plug for its latest, IE11.
In addition, Microsoft says it is planning to issue updates that will disable fallback to SSL 3.0 in IE, then disable SSL 3.0 in IE altogether by default, within the coming months.
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From cnet :
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/apple-du...o-poodle-flaw/
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Apple said Wednesday it will stop supporting the encryption standard Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 for its push notifications service in response to a vulnerability identified earlier this month in the aging protocol.
Spoiler:
Apple announced on its developer site that it will switch on October 29 from SSL 3.0 to Transport Layer Security (TLS), SSL's more modern, less vulnerable younger sibling. Disclosed earlier this month, the vulnerability -- called Poodle -- allows encrypted information to be exposed by an attacker with network access.
"Providers using only SSL 3.0 will need to support TLS as soon as possible to ensure the Apple Push Notification service continues to perform as expected," Apple said in its bulletin. "Providers that support both TLS and SSL 3.0 will not be affected and require no changes."
To help developers test compatibility, Apple said it has already disabled SSL 3.0 in the development environment on its Provider Communication interface.
Poodle, which stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (PDF), is a problem because it's used by both websites and Web browsers. Both must be reconfigured to prevent using SSL 3.0, and Poodle will remain a problem as long as SSL 3.0 is supported.
Once the most advanced form of Web encryption in use, the 15-year-old SSL 3.0 is used by few websites anymore, according to a study by the University of Michigan. However, Poodle still poses a threat because attackers can force browsers to downgrade to SSL 3.0.
Twitter already notified its users that it has disabled SSL 3.0 support, while Mozilla advised Firefox users to install a Mozilla security add-on that disables SSL 3.0. Along with Google and Mozilla, the University of Michigan researchers detailed how to disable SSL 3.0 for Internet Explorer.
Mozilla plans to disable SSL 3.0 in Firefox 34, the next version of the open-source browser. It's currently in beta testing, with a release planned for the end of November. Mozilla has been testing the change in its Aurora version of Firefox, the precursor to the beta version, and so far, "There has been much less screaming about this than I anticipated," said Mozilla's Martin Thomson on Wednesday, discussing the change on Mozilla's bug-tracker. Complaints would come from people who couldn't use Web sites that required SSL 3.0.
A site that tests your browser for vulnerability issues:
https://www.poodletest.com/
(And yep mine was vulnerable when I tested it, so I downloaded the Mozilla fix and now it's not)