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Millions of supposedly secure websites at risk from 'DROWN' SSL vulnerability

01 March 2016 • 2 min read

Still supporting SSLv2? Researchers warn that you're asking for trouble

As many as 11 million websites are at risk of a newly uncovered security vulnerability affecting HTTPS and other services that rely on SSL and TLS encryption, according to researchers. The rese...

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