Google Announces Nogotofail - A Network Traffic Security Testing Tool

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhydaHzMHltmDS5ktgt0XQFAwis3WY0o-9_Q6SrzOJ7rB3qPXCq-pPcKbttrW2lgv6SwPEUjvbYdJg9FeFIXO-y3vOUXPF7JJrsPG0zLnfTo_ilEtw0qlGEaG8_nhHePq8R6lRjotnTP_c4/s1600/Google+Announces+Nogotofail+-+A+Network+Traffic+Security+Testing+Tool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google Announces Nogotofail - A Network Traffic Security Testing Tool" border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhydaHzMHltmDS5ktgt0XQFAwis3WY0o-9_Q6SrzOJ7rB3qPXCq-pPcKbttrW2lgv6SwPEUjvbYdJg9FeFIXO-y3vOUXPF7JJrsPG0zLnfTo_ilEtw0qlGEaG8_nhHePq8R6lRjotnTP_c4/s1600/Google+Announces+Nogotofail+-+A+Network+Traffic+Security+Testing+Tool.jpg" title="" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Google announces a new security tool that help developers to detect security bugs in their applications.<br /> <br /> The Android Security Team has made a new tool,know as "<b>Nogotofail</b>",that provides an easy way to confirm that device that you are using are safe against TLS/SSL vulnerabilities.Recently Google security researchers discovered a new bug in SSL 3.0 which was dubbed as <a href="http://www.trickbug.com/2014/10/ssl-30-vulnerability-in-design.html"><span style="color: red;">"<b>POODLE</b>"</span></a>.</div> <div div="" id="ad3" style="float: left; padding: 10px;"> <br /> The open source tool is available on <a href="https://github.com/google/nogotofail"><span style="color: red;">Github</span></a>so that anybody can use this tool to check their applications,contribute new features..This tool works on almost every device running on Android,iOS,Linux,Windows,Chrome OS,OS X,in fact any device you use to connect to the Internet.<br /> <br /> "Google is committed to increasing the use of TLS/SSL in all applications and services.But HTTPS everywhere is not enough: it also need to be used correctly.Most platforms and devices have secure defaults,but some applications and libraries override the defaults for the worse,and in some instances we've seen platforms make mistakes as well.As application get more complex,connect to more services,and use more third party libraries,it become easier to introduce these type of mistakes.",said Chad Brubaker (Android Security Engineer).<br /> <br /> Chad also says that it is using this tool internally for some time and have worked with many web developer to improve the security of their apps.<br /> <br /> Nogotofail tool require Python 2.7 and pyOpenSSL>=0.13.Nogotofail tool is composed of an on-path network Man in The Middle (MiTM) and optional clients for the devices being tested.</div> </div>

Google Announces Nogotofail - A Network Traffic Security Testing Tool

Google announces a new security tool that help developers to detect security bugs in their applications. The Android Security Team...

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Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will be more Secure

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsrc0nlyRmfRhaRao7u25klg8gwdJw9u8GNJXGTk3RxDKNi4B5pkQxZdrxWKDchOLKxMZHXF59TY6QB3O6RVj-jH03ewVzyhSUgi6DUoM5IHaD6txpkBH35cSeXjxxeQTlUkRkLU8eVzE/s1600/Google+Chrome+and+Mozilla+Firefox+will+be+more+Secure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will be more Secure" border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsrc0nlyRmfRhaRao7u25klg8gwdJw9u8GNJXGTk3RxDKNi4B5pkQxZdrxWKDchOLKxMZHXF59TY6QB3O6RVj-jH03ewVzyhSUgi6DUoM5IHaD6txpkBH35cSeXjxxeQTlUkRkLU8eVzE/s1600/Google+Chrome+and+Mozilla+Firefox+will+be+more+Secure.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Developers in Washington have created a system that will protect Internet user's privacy and increasing the flexibility for web developers to create web applications that will combine data from different websites which helps in improving the safety of web surfing.</div> <div align="center" id="ad2"> According to developers at UCL Stanford University Google Chalmers and Mozilla researchers the system,"Confinement with origin web labels",or cowl,works with Mozilla's Firefox and the open source version of Google Chrome and prevents Malicious code in a website from leaking sensitive information to unauthorized parties.This system also allows code in a website to display content drawn from multiple website.The developers showed that the system provides strong security without slowing the loading speed of webpages and will be freely available for download and use on October 15.<br /> <br /> Source:Internet</div> </div>

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will be more Secure

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