While companies such as Packeteer, Expand Networks, Redline Networks and others have long touted the positive effects of HTTP compression, a recent study by Port80 Software (another compression vendor ...

Security researchers have expanded and improved a three-year-old attack that exploits the compression mechanism used to speed up browsing in order to recover sensitive information from encrypted Web ...

The HTTPS cryptographic scheme, which protects millions of websites, is susceptible to a new attack that allows hackers to pluck e-mail addresses and certain types of security credentials out of ...

Homeland Security released an advisory on the BREACH attack, a side-channel compression attack similar to CRIME, except that it steals secrets from HTTPS responses. A serious attack against ciphertext ...

Today, Microsoft announced changes to their Live Search crawler intended to reduce bandwidth resources during the crawl of a site. MSNbot (upgraded to version 1.1) now supports both HTTP compression ...

The Live Search Blog announced several updated to their crawler. The first is a name change to reflect the upgrade, previously named msnbot/1.0, it is now named msnbot/1.1. The bulk of the changes ...