newsmaker At the RSA Conference last month in San Francisco, Taher Elgamal was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award--only the third recipient of the award since its inception in 2004. The chief ...

SmoothWall – According to study from Netcraft, the number of websites using SSL encryption has risen by nearly 40% in the last year, and now totals well over two million. In addition to the obvious ...

Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security are two protocols used by websites to help guarantee your privacy and security. Some websites choose SSL, and some choose TLS. When security is being ...

LAS VEGAS — There are plenty of reasons that a company might want to try and decrypt SSL sessions — to stop outbound malware botnet connections that are decrypted, or to stop a rogue insider from ...

Microsoft is offering more guidance regarding a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 security flaw, including how to disable SSL 3.0 for users of Exchange Server and Azure Websites. SSL 3.0 is an encryption ...

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Amid growing warnings from cybersecurity analysts about the looming threat of quantum decryption, ImmuniWeb has released a ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Symantec announced on Aug. 2 that it is selling its ...

The Secure Sockets Layer protocol for secure Web transfers was first developed by Netscape in 1994. Since then, it has a ubiquitous tool for setting up encrypted communications over the Internet. SSL ...

A Seattle computer security consultant says he’s developed a new way to exploit a recently disclosed bug in the SSL protocol, used to secure communications on the Internet. The attack, while difficult ...

I was sitting in a local coffee shop recently and, since I was bored, I kicked on a Windows instance in VirtualBox on my Mint Linux-powered laptop so I could run Firesheep. Firesheep was, and is, a ...

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 ...