ALPACA gnaws through TLS protection to snarf cookies and steal data

Academics from three German universities have found a vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that under limited circumstances allows the theft of session cookies and enables cross-site scripting attacks. Dubbed ALPACA, which is short for “Application Layer Protocol Confusion – Analyzing and Mitigating Cracks in TLS Authentication,”

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