¶ºÒõ¹Ý

Here is our latest news roundup of articles about network and SSL security. to see the whole series.

SSL & Encryption News

• Google Chrome 40 was released on January 23, which means we’re only one version away from the which is scheduled for version 41.
• announced that they will soon not trust 1024-bit SSL root certificates.
• and will be included in Google Chrome in February. ¶ºÒõ¹Ý is the first and currently to operate a Certificate Transparency log.

Data Security

• Ladar Levision, founder of the now defunct Lavabit email service, is working on a new email project that .
• Gogo in-flight Internet sets up .
• 2014 was fraught with data breaches, but the upside could mean .
• President Obama’s brings cybersecurity into the national spotlight (the full transcript can be found ).
• Missed the kick-off for Data Privacy Day? .
• discusses the Internet of Things, its benefits and risks, and efforts to secure it.

Vulnerabilities

• Four updates released by fix multiple moderate to low risk vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL.
• that they will be disabling SSL 3.0 in Azure storage on February 20, 2015.
• found in Java are addressed with Oracle's new updates, the updates also disable SSL 3.0 by default.
• Qualys discovered a major vulnerability in Linux systems known as the . GHOST allows an attacker access to a system without needing system credentials.
• for two zero-day vulnerabilities found in the Adobe Flash Player.

Malware

• A , disguised as a fax tricks thousands in South America and Eastern Europe.

Data Breaches

• , resulting in 20 million usernames and email addresses being stolen.