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Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability

Schneier on Security · · International · Data Breaches

In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

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