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PayPal Phishing Certificates Far More Prevalent Than Previously Thought

  • 31st August 2017
Over 14,000 SSL Certificates issued to PayPal phishing sites. Earlier this month I discussed the use of Let’s Encrypt certificates on PayPal phishing sites. In that article I asked Let’s Encrypt to stop issuing certificates containing the term “PayPal” because of the high likelihood they would be used for phishing. That requested ...
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Cipher Suites: Ciphers, Algorithms and Negotiating Security Settings

  • 30th August 2017
Here’s what you need to know about the algorithms behind SSL/TLS encryption. If you study SSL and encryption long enough, eventually you’re going to come across the word “cipher.” Aside from just generally being a cool word, ciphers are a very important part of encryption. So, what are encryption ciphers? Ciphers are algorithms, more ...
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Google Removes Over 300 Apps From its App Store

  • 29th August 2017
The apps included malware that was used in building the WireX botnet Over the past few days, Google has removed over 300 applications from its Android App Store, the Google Play Store, after being alerted that they contained malware used for creating DDoS attacks. The malware was creating a botnet, dubbed WireX, that was used in a series of ...
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Troubleshoot Firefox’s “Performing TLS Handshake” Message

  • 14th August 2017
Troubleshoot Firefox’s “Performing TLS Handshake” Message   Stuck For Seconds On This Message? Try These Fixes. Down in the lower-left corner of Firefox lives the Status Bar. This is the small grey box that appears when a page is loading or when you hover over a link. A lot of messages appear in that bar – most flash by so quick you ...
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