Tag: MS14-066

Nov 12 2014

Microsoft’s HeartBleed: The Schannel SSL/TLS vulnerability (MS14-066)

Earlier this year, Unix/Linux/*nix systems dealt with the “Hearbleed” OpenSSL vulnerability which affected a large portion of the web. There is a major vulnerability in Microsoft’s Schannel which was recently patched in MS14-066 (KB2992611). What is SChannel? The Secure Channel (Schannel) security package is a Security Support Provider (SSP) that implements the Secure Sockets Layer …

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