Cybersecurity

Mozilla Reduces Threat of Export-Grade Crypto to Firefox | Threatpost

Mozilla Reduces Threat of Export-Grade Crypto to Firefox article tells that Logjam was one of several downgrade attacks discovered in the last 18 months that could theoretically allow a resourced attacker to take advantage of lingering export-grade cryptography to read and modify data over a supposedly secure connection. Other related recent crypto problems are recent OpenSSL

Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-security-needs-fixing/ Report from Linux security summit. Many security practices on modern devices are stick 90′s practices. There are improvements Linux kernel planned… but how can we convince IoT gadget makers to do their part in security puzzle? Linux kernel is not the only part that needs rethinking.