'POODLE' Web Flaw: How to Fix Your Browser

[Paul Wagenseil]

A newly disclosed flaw in Web encryption threatens all secure online communications. Fortunately, there are easy ways to avoid it.

'POODLE' Web Flaw: How to Fix Your Browser : Read more

 

[lopezjavier]

Missing for your browser list is Safari. How would anyone disable SSL 3 on Safari?

 

[Paul Wagenseil]

lopezjavier, I honestly don't know. I've been searching for that, but can't find any instruction from Apple. There's no obvious setting in Safari. I suspect that because Safari is so deeply hooked into the OS, fixing this may require a full system update.

 

[Shelama]

In my Mac OS 10.6.8, the Terminal command to fix Google Chrome returns only "/Applications/Google: No such file or directory"

The Google Chrome app is, indeed, right where it belongs in the App folder.

 

[EricTheByteMan]

For Firefox, that setting may break Firefox 33+
For all versions of Firefox use Mozilla's own plugin to prevent SSL3 connections:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssl-version-control/

 

[Paul Wagenseil]

lopezjavier: as I suspected might happen, Apple fixed POODLE for Safari by pushing out a security update for Mountain Lion and Mavericks. Yosemite users get the patch built in; Lion users are out in the cold, and would need to update to Yosemite (or Mountain Lion or Mavericks if they can find an installation image):
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-yosemite-patch,news-19799.html