Practical New Developments in The Breach Attack

Explore new developments in the BREACH attack on SSL connections in this 53-minute Black Hat conference talk. Learn about practical extensions to the attack against common encryption ciphers, command-and-control techniques for exploiting plain HTTP connections, and statistical methods to bypass noise in block ciphers and web applications. Discover parallelization and optimization techniques, novel mitigation strategies, and a tool implementation with experimental results on popular web services. Gain insights into HTTPS vulnerabilities, alternative secrets, artificial noise, browser polarization, and persistence methods. Understand the implications for first-party cookies and future cybersecurity challenges.