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Look like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates can be broken and no longer safe now days.

The trick in the latest type of attack is that all a criminal would need to do is put the name of a legitimate Web site before that null character, and the browser will believe that the site it’s visiting – which is under the criminal’s control – is legitimate.

The criminal could then forward the traffic onto the legitimate site and spy on everything the victim does on that site.

It’s a complicated attack, but it highlights a significant weakness in the very technology widely used to assure people it’s safe to navigate sensitive sites.

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