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Researcher to Demonstrate Poor SSL Implementations Using Pineapple WiFi

Tripwire has Craig Young, a security researcher from its Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT), is working on a paper about SSL vulnerabilities that will be presented at DEF CON 22 Wireless Village. Young is an award-winning cyber security expert, who has uncovered multiple router security holes, Google authentication vulnerabilities, and has filed numerous CVEs. Young has unearthed various situations where poor SSL implementations in combination with inbuilt weaknesses in the 802.11 WiFi standards result in certain flaws that can be easily exploited by attackers.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/researcher-to-demonstrate-poor-ssl.html

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