When Lazy Administrators Cause A Logjam

A demo of the methods in this article are here.

I had a debate with an administrator the other day. “Are you safe from Logjam?”, “Yes. I patched”, “But how do you know it is okay?”, “Well. I scanned it”, “But what if the scanner is not working right?”.

Overall, the administrator hadn’t understood what the threat was, and just patched without really knowing what had…