Firefox, Chrome, IE - Poodle?

Help! At our office, our credit card processing company told us they will no longer support SSL 3 because of the POODLE attack? I'm not finding anything about it here, and you guys are my go-to geeks, so is this a real threat or hype about nothing? I checked our IE, Chrome, and FF browsers and had to change the settings as directed on ALL of them - including newly downloaded and installed FF. Haven't heard a thing about it.

 

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Right...Did that. Do YOU know if it's a real serious threat or not? My question was is it hype or a serious deal. Do you know? Thanks!

 

As your card company is forcing you to take action then it's serious for you whatever I or others here might think rolleyes

 

From what I've read about it, it IS a real threat although they say it's not as "menacing" as Heartbleed or ShellShock. Take whatever steps are necessary to protect your business.

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/15/ssl-3-0-vulnerability-discovered-find-out-how-to-protect-yourself/

The above 2 don't seem to be in a hurry to remove the SSL 3.0 support immediately with an update so I figure imho it's important but not really that much of a real emergency. Fix it if you don't trust the current status.

If your employer/company tells you to change it then do it.

 

Thank you all - We trust everyone here far more than anybody else. You've never led us wrong. Much appreciated! We got mixed messages from the company vs what we had read. Did the fixes, will do @home, too. TY!

 

You can turn off ssl3 in IE also, just uncheck the option.

 

That seems much simpler than using Microsoft Fixit to disable SSL 3.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3009008?wa=wsignin1.0

 

You can check whether your browsers are vulnerable at the following sites:
https://www.poodletest.com/
https://dev.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html