malware in https

May 24, 2017

SECURITY

The light is green! But is it safe to go? Abusing users’ faith in HTTPS

This post was authored by Anna Shirokova and Ivan Nikolaev John Smith had a lot of friends and liked to travel. One day he got an email that read: “Money has been sent to your PayPal account”. The sender appeared to be a person he met from recent trip to Cape Town. John Smith was curious…

October 20, 2016

SECURITY

Piecing Together Malicious Behavior in Encrypted Traffic

This post was authored by Jan Kohout, Veronica Valeros and Petr Somol. Increasing adoption of encryption in web communication significantly contributes to protection of users’ privacy. However, it also brings tough challenges for intrusion detection systems that need to analyze the traffic wit…