Posts made by Richard

**What is POODLE?
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POODLE stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. What that means in practical terms is that there is a vulnerability in the SSLv3 communication protocol that allows for man-in-the-middle attack on secure HTTP connections

**Can you repeat that in English?
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This vulnerability can allow a compromised WIFI hotspot or ISP to snoop on your secure connections. A man in the middle attack is like the game of telephone with three people, and the person in the middle is the bad guy. He or she intercepts encrypted communications and can decrypt them to snoop passwords or other confidential data. For instance if you are doing online banking then a malicious man-in-the-middle could get your password and other confidential data transmitted.

**When will this be fixed?
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There is currently no fix or patch for this vulnerability. SSLv3 is an older version of the HTTPS protocol, and is only used for compatibility for older browsers and has been replaced by the newer TLS 1.0 protocol.

**How can I protect myself and my users?
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Make sure you and your users are using an up to date browser, and turn off SSLv3 for your browser. Here are instructions for Internet Explorer and Chrome, and here are instructions for Firefox. You can share these instructions to your users as well.

This page will also tell you if SSLv3 is on or off in your browser to confirm that you've disabled it.

For server side checking, you can go here: https://zmap.io/sslv3/.

For the lighter side, here is our movie idea we are pitching.

I actually ended up making it again yesterday. It might become one of my every-week items to cook now.

@Carnival-Boy It's on of my all time favorite recipes. Cooking it for the lady friend this weekend.

While I would love to say that I spend all my time doing marketing for Webroot, my evenings/nights/early mornings/weekends tend to be filled with various other work. As a trained journalist, I love to write, and have worked with a group of seasoned writers to build our new e-zine to go after the GQ/Esquire reader crowd. I am also a photographer with prints for sale on metal sheets.. So have a look sometime.

The ezine: www.factorytwofour.com
My portfolio: www.flickr.com/rcmelick
My metal prints: displate.com/rmelick/landscape

@ajstringham A new product with an amazing foundation helped as well.

Webroot? What's that?

So about the Best Buy pushing; I want you to know we didn't pay for that exposure. The Geek Squad loves our product and uses it as part of their remediation toolkit, and that lead to the company feeling it to be a valuable product to push. Now, with it being Best Buy, I can understand the hesitation and don't blame anyone for it.

Okay, now that the Webroot'ness is out, we can carry on. I'm happy to read @dashrender is slowly coming to the green side.