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POODLE Vulnerability – We’ve disabled SSLv3 support on our web hosting servers

On October 14th 2014 Google released details on the POODLE attack, a padding oracle attack that targets CBC-mode ciphers in the 15 year old SSLv3 security protocol. The vulnerability allows an active "man-in-the-middle" attacker to decrypt content exchanged via an SSLv3 connection. While secure connections primarily use TLS (the successor to SSL), most users were vulnerable because web...
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