On Friday, February 13, 2015, the Payment Cards Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (Council) posted a bulletin to its website, becoming the first regulatory body to publicly pronounce that ...

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 ...

Twitter is slowly turning on automatic encryption on its website, a move following other major providers of web-based services to thwart account hijacking over wireless networks. Twitter has offered ...

Just how broken are fundamental Internet security technologies such as Secure-Socket Layer (SSL), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and Transport Layer Security (TLS)? We still don't know for ...

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 ...

Yahoo will enable encrypted connections for all users of its email service starting in January, reports the Washington Post. The move comes nearly eight years after Google added the same feature for ...

When you connect to a normal, unprotected website, information is sent in easily read, plain text format. This information typically bounces between numerous servers before it reaches its destination, ...

It seemed like such a good idea in the early 90s. Secure-Socket Layer (SSL) encryption was brand new and the National Security Agency (NSA) wanted to make sure that they could read "secured" web ...

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 ...

Flexadex lets you store addresses and phone numbers online, but a lack of Secure Sockets Layer encryption means that your data is not secure. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...