whitehartstag writes "Black Hat 08 disclosed several SSL VPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take notice. Some of these new exploits performed a brilliant Man-In-The-Middle attack on SSL VPN tunnels. This article walks you... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Mon, Aug 18 2008
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