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 ...

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 ...

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 Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yahoo’s decision to turn SSL on by default for its email users is being met with halfhearted applause by the security industry. Yahoo is being second-guessed more today than a mediocre baseball ...

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 ...

Here is a list of the best free online SSL certificate checker tools that let you check and verify the SSL certificate on a web server. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer which is basically an ...

The Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers download Secure Sockets Layer security certificates from websites that use SSL security. However, if you don't want to use SSL for any reason, you can ...