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 ...

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One exception to the industry-wide lethargy is the engineering team that designs the Signal Protocol, the open source engine ...

TLS was developed in 1999 as an improvement on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) data encryption. Though SSL 3.0 is still used, TLS version 1.0 is supported by most commonly used browsers. However, it was ...

CloudFlare Inc. wants to put an end to the unencrypted internet with the rollout of a new suite of features including TLS 1.3, Opportunistic Encryption and Automatic HTTPS Rewrites. Leading the ...

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 ...

TLS is the successor to the better-known SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption protocol; both are used to secure data communications between browsers and the destination server. The makers of the four ...

An academic study published last month shows that despite years worth of research into the woeful state of network traffic inspection equipment, vendors are still having issues in shipping appliances ...

Many users of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—formerly Jabber) chat services are going to be more secure starting this week. The XMPP Standards Foundation announced that a large ...

Part 4 of a six-part article: First of all, you must have X.509 server certificate issued by a certification authority (CA) like VeriSign. There are many vendors who provide TLSSSL certificates. They ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

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 ...