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 ...

Google's Security Team revealed on Tuesday that the long obsolete, but still all too used, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 cryptographic protocol has a major security flaw. According to the team's Bodo ...

If you’re using HTTPS, that means you’re relying on encryption to transmit data between your server and a web client. That encryption is specified by a protocol called SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or ...

To enable users to browse safely on Chrome, Chrome requires websites to use trustworthy certificates. A secure website must have trustworthy SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates. In other words, if ...

Microsoft on Tuesday warned of a "vulnerability" associated with two protocols commonly used to establish secure client-server communications. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets ...

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a security protocol that enables encrypted communication between a client and a web server. The websites that implement SSL have HTTPS in their URLs instead ...

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 ...

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