A new vulnerability in the basic software used to secure the web has been discovered by cyber security researchers at Google, who have dubbed the flaw “Poodle”.
Poodle is the latest in a string of flaws being discovered in the architecture of the web. They include Heartbleed, which was also a vulnerability in the way websites form secure connections to send information, and more recently Shellshock, which had existed for over two decades.
Cyber criminals could use the hole in SSL version 3.0 to obtain information that is meant to be encrypted in plain text but – so far – there is no evidence it has been used by hackers.
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