The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has completed a security extension to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol that fixes a flaw affecting browsers, servers, smart cards, and VPN products, ...

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has released a bulletin regarding the use of SSL for data protection on the Internet. In the bulletin, the Council states that SSL – a protocol for ...

The NSA released new guidance providing system administrators with the tools to update outdated TLS protocols. The National Security Agency (NSA) is lighting a fire under system administrators who are ...

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 ...

Part 3 of a six-part article: The RFC 2246 document states the following: “The cryptographic parameters of the session state are produced by the TLS Handshake Protocol, which operates on top of the ...

The adoption of devices for the internet of things will depend very much on their communication to the Internet being secure. There are many aspects to being able to secure connections between client ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paul Kocher and Taher Elgamal, whose work has had a profound impact on communication security, have been awarded the 2019 Marconi Prize for their development of ...

Do you know what SSL protocols you expose to your users? Are your settings optimized for security? Have you properly deprecated older TLS certs? Here's what you need to know. Most of us take Secured ...

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is an industry-standard method for secure communications on the internet. SSL -- along with its successor, transport layer security (TLS) -- is the commonly accepted ...

The SSL bug Apple patched on iOS on Friday is a shocking and embarrassing one. That it appears to have been in both iOS and OS X for some time and the way Apple is addressing it show both that Apple ...