Thanks to Google and Facebook, awareness of Transport Layer Security (TLS), formerly known a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology, is now fairly high. In fact, adoption of TLS/SSL is so ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has shared guidance on how to detect and replace outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions with up to date and secure variants.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

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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 ...

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 ...