This week has brought about the latest security vulnerability. Google’s Thai Duong, Krzysztof Kotowicz, and Bodo Möller made the vulnerability — POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) — public on Tuesday, October 14, 2014. POODLE is a padding oracle attack affecting Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 3 and in particular, CBC-mode ciphers. This vulnerability […]