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, ...

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 ...

You may have noticed that Google's Chrome web browser now marks all websites without Transport Layer Security (TLS) as insecure. So, it's past time to secure your ...

Webmasters who patched their sites against a serious SSL flaw discovered in October will have to check them again. Researchers have discovered that the vulnerability also affects implementations of ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is about to issue a proposed extension to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) that addresses a major vulnerability in the protocol that was inadvertently disclosed ...

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 ...

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 ...

You could miss it if you weren't paying close attention through all the Heartbleed blather, but last week Apple patched a severe problem in their TLS/SSL code in iOS and OS X. An attacker in a ...

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 ...