90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find
More than 90 percent of sites that use the secure sockets layer protocol are susceptible to known attacks that can decrypt or tamper with protected data, a study of the 200,000 most widely used services found. The finding has grim implications for the security of passwords and other sensitive data passing between end users and Web servers.
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