A team of academics has revealed a new cryptographic attack this week that can break encrypted TLS traffic, allowing attackers to intercept and steal data previously considered safe & secure. This new ...

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 ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has shared guidance on how to detect and replace outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions with up to date and secure variants. The US intelligence ...

A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...

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More than 90 percent of Android apps running on the latest OS encrypt their traffic by default. A full 80 percent of Android apps are encrypting their traffic by default, according to a Transport ...

At the end of June, digital credit card transactions are getting a mandatory encryption upgrade. It's good news—but not if you have an old device, or depend on a retailer that hasn't completed the ...

Is your data secure? Researchers recently discovered a new variation of the Bleichenbacher oracle attack that could threaten TLS 1.3 encryption. Seven researchers discovered that OpenSSL, Amazon s2n, ...

From on-premise to hybrid environments and the cloud, we have you covered. Read now A team of academics has disclosed today a theoretical attack on the TLS cryptographic protocol that can be used to ...

When it was first uncovered back in October, researchers believed that only sites using SSL 3.0 were vulnerable to the POODLE vulnerability, but now it appears certain implementations of TLS could be ...