Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple.

The article discusses the computer company Apple Inc. and its reported discovery of a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) vulnerability involving the firm's iOS 6.0 computer operating system in 2014, focusing on man-in-the-middle computer attacks and various computer bugs (viruses). An apparent short circuit...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 7; pp. 58 - 65
Main Author:	BLAND, MIKE
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2014
Subjects:	Apple Inc. Secure Sockets Layer (Computer network protocol) Psychological vulnerability > Social aspects Computer virus management Cyberterrorism iOS (Operating system) C (Computer program language) Coding theory Databases Computer industry United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses the computer company Apple Inc. and its reported discovery of a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) vulnerability involving the firm's iOS 6.0 computer operating system in 2014, focusing on man-in-the-middle computer attacks and various computer bugs (viruses). An apparent short circuit involving an SSL/TLS (Transport Layer Security) handshake algorithm is mentioned, along with the U.S. National Vulnerability Database and the C computer programming language. Computer coding standards and duplications of "goto" statements are examined.