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  • Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS
  • Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS

Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS

Published: 2020-05-26 11:54:47

Popularity: 106

Author: Bruce Schneier

Keywords:

  • authentication
  • Bluetooth
  • impersonation
  • security engineering
  • vulnerabilities
  • wireless
  • 🤖: "Blues get hacked"

    This is new research on a Bluetooth vulnerability (called BIAS) that allows someone to impersonate a trusted device: Abstract: Bluetooth (BR/EDR) is a pervasive technology for wireless communication used by billions of devices. The Bluetooth standard includes a legacy authentication procedure and a secure authentication procedure, allowing devices to authenticate to each other using a long term key. Those procedures...

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    Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS

    Published: 2020-02-25 15:15:33

    Popularity: 364

    Author: Bruce Schneier

    Keywords:

  • browsers
  • child pornography
  • DNS
  • Firefox
  • https
  • Mozilla
  • security engineering
  • terrorism
  • 🤖: ""Secure surfing""

    This is good news: Whenever you visit a website -- even if it's HTTPS enabled -- the DNS query that converts the web address into an IP address that computers can read is usually unencrypted. DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, encrypts the request so that it can't be intercepted or hijacked in order to send a user to a malicious site. [...]...

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