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 ...

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages. If you ...

The adoption of devices for the internet of things will depend very much on their communication to the Internet being secure. There are many aspects to being able to secure connections between client ...

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is an industry-standard method for secure communications on the internet. SSL -- along with its successor, transport layer security (TLS) -- is the commonly accepted ...

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 ...

The user-guides for most email-clients state that TLS is preferrable to SSL. But I'm confused because the written explanations are conflicting -- some say SSLv3 has been compromised and should no ...

Yahoo Mail had support for full-session HTTPS — SSL/TLS encryption over HTTP — since late 2012, but users had to opt in to use the feature. Tuesday, the company delivered on a promise that it made in ...

Nothing new here. 22% of organizations say that their security team has various problems related specifically to SSL/TLS (i.e. certificate management, proxy configurations, acceptable ciphers, etc.).

Yahoo has started to automatically encrypt connections between users and its email service, adding an important security layer that rival Gmail has had for almost four years, but its implementation ...