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News about Netcraft

• Rush to defend against Heartbleed leads to mistakes with certificates, patches

  Some reissued SSL certificates use the same vulnerable key as the ones they replace, and some sites moved to a vulnerable version of OpenSSL

• Netcraft tool flags websites affected by Heartbleed

  The new browser plug-in can identify Web sites that maybe vulnerable to the OpenSSL bug

• EA Games site hacked to steal Apple IDs

  The attackers sought credentials and other personal information through a phishing scheme, researchers said

• Dozens of rogue self-signed SSL certificates used to impersonate high-profile sites

  The certificates could be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks against desktop and mobile apps with poor certificate validation

• Phishing attack targets CloudFlare customers

  Spoofed emails posed as CloudFlare alerts about account limits being exceeded

• Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

  'Apache Killer' circulates in the wild, say project devs, who promise a patch in 48 hours

Features about Netcraft

• The Next Heartbleed: 5 security vulnerabilities to watch

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