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AllegroD's avatar
Feb 23, 2015

Lavasoft and Comodo leave users open to easier attacks

Security software found using Superfish-style code, as attacks get simpler

ars technica wrote:
The development is significant because it involves AV company Lavasoft and Comodo, a company that issues roughly one-third of the Internet's Transport Layer Security certificates, making it the world's biggest certificate authority.
  • Post of mine from another related thread:

    Here is the statement by LavaSoft on the issue.

    It appears that it was only their Web Companion product that was impacted, at least as far as they've disclosed.

    Nothing on their website about this so I guess unless you just happen to stumble on this Facebook post you're not going to hear about the issue. Not exactly a full-disclosure situation.
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Short synoposys:

    The battle between the forces of GOOD (internet and personal/professional computer security experts)
    and the forces of Evil: (hackers) Continues.

    They found a flaw, we are closing it off, Business as usual. Make sure you update.

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