Cybercriminals are using a new method to evade detection to make sure that the traffic generated by their malicious campaigns is not being detected, a technique based on SSL/TLS signature ...

Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting. When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced ...

Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers have abused for years to walk straight into corporate networks. The move ...

Given recent attacks against older, commonly-used encryption modes RC4 and CBC, the Google team began implementing new algorithms – ChaCha 20 for symmetric encryption and Poly1305 for authentication – ...

Facebook, PayPal and other popular websites are at risk from a cryptography flaw in the transport layer security (TLS) protocol that could enable attackers to decrypt communications and traffic. The ...

Microsoft has issued a warning in the knowledge base article for the MS14-066 update released this past week. The company has provided a workaround, but is not recommending that users avoid the update ...

Website security and performance vendor CloudFlare has made the newest version of the TLS secure communications protocol available to all of its customers. The TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.3 ...

This chapter is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) and corresponding answers following the popular USENET tradition. Most of these questions occurred on the Newsgroup ...

I've used the Nartac Software IIS Crypto tool* to set the Windows SSL cipher suite order, secure protocols, ciphers, hashes, and key exchanges on newly set up Windows servers running modern ...

Google SSL guru Adam Langley has revealed that many TLS implementations are vulnerable to an attack similar to the POODLE attack from several weeks ago which affected only SSL version 3. SSLv3 did not ...