WHAT IS SSL STRIPPING? SSL stripping is an attack in which an unauthorized party downgrades the connection security from HTTPS to HTTP. It takes advantage of weak spots in the process of migrating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s simply too easy to snoop, spoof, and steal unprotected information as it travels over the wires. Last month, I wrote the final article in a series on X.509 ...

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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 ...

HOUSTON, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SSL.com, a globally trusted Certification Authority, announced today that it has acquired the digital certificate customer portfolio from VikingCloud, a leading ...

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 ...

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 ...