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"Beginning May 9, 2017, Microsoft released updates to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 to block sites that are protected with a SHA-1 certificate from loading and to display an invalid certificate warning," the company announced.
The change, however, impacts only SHA-1 certificates that chain to a root in the Microsoft Trusted Root Program where the end-entity certificate or the issuing intermediate uses SHA-1. This means that enterprises or self-signed SHA-1 certificates won't be affected by this. They are, however, encouraged to migrate to SHA-2 based certificates as fast as possible.
"Microsoft recommends that all customers migrate to SHA-2, and the use of SHA-1 as a hashing algorithm for signing purposes is discouraged and is no longer a best practice. The root cause of the problem is a known weakness of the SHA-1 hashing algorithm that exposes it to collision attacks. Such attacks could allow an attacker to generate additional certificates that have the same digital signature as an original," the company notes.
Source: Microsoft Kills SHA-1 Support in Edge, Internet Explorer 11
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @11:33AM (11 children)
We don't? How queer!
And you don't see any problem when the soylents actually submit breaking-news stories and those stories lag until they are no longer breaking, not even news.
What a great motivation for submitting stories, right?
Heaps of links to breaking news to be aggregated into a story, go check the pending queue.
Right, 100 countries affected is not severe, is it now?
Chaos in the UK medical system, with ambulances diverted [cnbc.com], is not threatening, just a usual fact of life on countries other-that-the-mighty-US.
Maybe you don't give a shit about people not giving a shit about security.
How would you feel if your open heart surgery that you need is cancelled [ft.com] because of a ransomware attack perpetrated with NSA tools [forbes.com]?
Sure those surgeons should drop everything they're doing, secure those damn'd WindowXP-es and let Jeremy Cunt sleep well after cancelling a pricey support package in 2015 as a cost-saving measure. [theregister.co.uk]. Cost saving and "starve the beast" is a so trivial fact of life it doesn't worth discussing.
You can continue to abuse them whenever/whatever you like.
Me?... I'm only exercising my right to free-speech, I hope you won't object to that.
Oh, my speech actually abused the editors? Sorry, I though that TMB knows better than to select special snowflakes as editors.
(large trollish grin. Thanks for the fun!).
PS - are you sure soylenters still don't have enough to discuss even with the links I posted in this reply?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday May 13 2017, @11:40AM (1 child)
It will run in 2 hours. You can drop it already.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:20PM
Oh, don't take it so serious.
Be honest, admit it. If not for me trolling this FA, you'd have a blank page here.
And I wasn't even outrageous in my trolling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 13 2017, @11:52AM (7 children)
I'd feel pretty damned good about it. Maybe the bastards will secure their shit now. This is one of the best possible things anyone could have done to all affected; make them open their wallet.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:15PM (6 children)
Yeah.
Perhaps asking for the same volunteering spirit (and speed) as for SN editors will get them to install a Linux or a BSD on those machines, 'cause there's no money in UK's health budget to upgrade from WinXP.
(grin)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:29PM (5 children)
Is there money to pay the ransom?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:53PM (4 children)
Funny enough.], it seems like paying the ransom once is cheaper in this case.
That is... if you don't take into account the cost of the chaos; but who in her/his full mind would look into those costs? The path to freedom (or death) is capitalism, and everybody knows the capitalism is about privatizing the profit and socializing the cost/risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 13 2017, @03:36PM (3 children)
Only if you're either scum or a socialist. But I repeat myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday May 13 2017, @04:03PM (1 child)
Your're not saying that only scum or Socialists understand Capitalism, are you?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 13 2017, @04:37PM
No, I'm saying only they misunderstand it in that particular way.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 13 2017, @10:02PM
Well, I'm redunduntly both, you'll have to live with it.
But I don't worry, you'll manage fine. A thick rind is all you need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday May 14 2017, @05:01AM
Maybe you don't give a shit about people not giving a shit about security.
How would you feel if your open heart surgery that you need is cancelled [ft.com] because of a ransomware attack perpetrated with NSA tools [forbes.com]?
Sure those surgeons should drop everything they're doing, secure those damn'd WindowXP-es and let Jeremy Cunt sleep well after cancelling a pricey support package in 2015 as a cost-saving measure. [theregister.co.uk]. Cost saving and "starve the beast" is a so trivial fact of life it doesn't worth discussing.
And because SoylentNews didn't run this story on your timeline, SN is responsible for any deaths from a lack of open heart surgery, right?
Is that your beef? Or are you just annoyed that you don't control the order in which stories are posted?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr