perspective Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was designed to maintain the integrity of transmissions through encryption, authentication and message authentication codes. The protocol’s ability to maintain ...

Websites and companies that rely on OpenSSL should patch their systems as soon as possible. The developer of Open SSL, a widely used open-source encryption library, released Tuesday a patch to fix two ...

It’s been a year since Edward Snowden’s leak of National Security Agency documents triggered a firestorm around cloud service providers’ privacy protections (or lack thereof). Since last summer, the ...

Disable SSL 3.0 in browsers and servers: That's the recommendation of security experts in the wake of the discovery of a serious flaw in the nearly 15-year-old version of the encryption protocol. The ...

Over the weekend, the world wide web became a lot more secure. That's because a San Francisco start-up called CloudFlare turned on a free service that will let its 2 million customers add SSL ...

Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over ...

SSL and TLS are similar technologies because they share a codebase, though one is better than the other. In fact, one is dead and the other still reigns supreme to the time this day. By end of this ...

How many times have we encountered Web sites that reassure us about their security just because they use SSL? We see statements such as, "Your transactions are protected by SSL." What does this ...

San Francisco startup CloudFlare just unveiled a new tool that will change the way companies encrypt information. The tool is called Keyless SSL, and it helps companies defend against ...

Software developers are racing to patch a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers to recover the plaintext of authentication cookies and other encrypted data as they travel over the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. SSL/TLS encryption is widely ...