BERserk Vulnerability

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If you use FireFox or Chrome as a web browser, it is time to update them. The Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) crypto library, a collection of cryptographic algorithms used for a variety of Internet standards currently allows for attackers to forge RSA signatures. RSA is a method of encryption that helps ensure that your data is transmitted securely across the Web. If you see a website marked with “https://,”.

Sites that we think are secure might not be so secure after all. This means that if you’re shopping or banking on a website that uses SSL (or “https://”), your personal information could be exposed.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/09/stable-channel-update_24.html

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