SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real

rastos1 and several other readers noted that the SSL vulnerability we discussed a couple of weeks back, which some researchers had claimed was too theoretical to worry about, has now been demonstrated by exploit. The attack description is available on securegoose.org. "A Turkish grad student has devised a serious, real-world attack on Twitter that targeted a recently discovered vulnerability in the SSL protocol. The exploit by Anil Kurmus is significant because it successfully targeted the so-called SSL renegotiation bug to steal Twitter login credentials that passed through encrypted data streams. All in all, a man in the middle is able to steal the credentials of a user authenticating himself through HTTPS to a trusted website."

Comments

Re:Kinda bad summary

[teh_commodore]

1) Which banks have an open-to-the-public API?

2) Let's assume you have an answer to 1). The exploit involves dumping text to a public message. If your bank has any sort of messaging feature, it's private. Hell, if your tweets are private on twitter, you were never in danger in the first place.