Security News

.onion officially registered as special-use domain name by the IETF (Help Net Security)
2015-10-29 14:16

By publishing the RFC 7686 standard, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has formally recognized the .onion domain as a special-use domain name. "Over the last few years, The Tor Project ha...

IETF Officially Deprecates SSLv3 (Threatpost)
2015-06-26 18:50

The IETF, in RFC7568, declared SSLv3 "not sufficiently secure" and prohibited its use. SSLv3 fallbacks were to blame for the POODLE and BEAST attacks.