San Francisco startup CloudFlare just unveiled a new tool that will change the way companies encrypt information. The tool is called Keyless SSL, and it helps companies defend against ...

perspective Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was designed to maintain the integrity of transmissions through encryption, authentication and message authentication codes. The protocol’s ability to maintain ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Ever since Edward Snowden’s ...

Software developers are racing to patch a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers to recover the plaintext of authentication cookies and other encrypted data as they travel over the ...

Developers whose apps are still using HTTP plaintext connections to connect to Twitter's API feeds may find their applications broken from today. Twitter has enforced new rules for developers to ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. SSL/TLS encryption is widely ...

Ten days ago, a Debian Security Advisory (DSA-1571-1) was released that detailed a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptographic libraries that affects both Debian and other Linux distributions derived from ...

IT professionals are expected to know everything technical, which creates a very high bar, and mistakes can be costly. Increasingly, corporate IT is asked to be more involved with website security ...

Computer users worldwide are wary of hacks and privacy violations, so it pays to continue to be vigilant with your website’s security. If you’re working in SEO, you have no doubt come across SSL ...

The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...

Stephen A. Thomas is chief architect for Wave7 Optics. He has been actively involved in TCP/IP standards development for nearly two decades, and has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet ...