E-mail is rarely secure, but users rarely care. E-mail is secure enough for most users under most circumstances, even those involving transmission of sensitive content. People leave most messages ...

Time and again, we hear of incidents involving identity theft, stealing of account passwords, installation of malware from web sources, and even ransomware. All of these security breaches have a ...

With the evolution of the internet, the solutions for better protection of websites increase -- and so does the creativity of cybercriminals. For several years now, organizations like Google have been ...

Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet. The flaw lies in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TippingPoint, a leader in network security and a division of 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS), today announced the availability of the TippingPoint' 1500S SSL Appliance. This new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hideaway.net said, “Spoofing a trusted Web site is thus a trivial exploit; when combined with session hijacking, a man-in-the-middle attack is quite feasible. This destroys the whole purpose of SSL ...

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 ...