Security News

IETF Publishes TLS 1.3 as RFC 8446
2018-08-13 19:42

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on Friday published version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic encryption protocol as RFC 8446. read more

wolfSSL announces the first commercial release of TLS 1.3
2018-08-09 08:51

wolfSSL announces the commercial release of TLS 1.3. With the imminent finalization of the TLS 1.3 draft 28 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF.org), wolfSSL is the first commercial...

Facebook Open Sources Fizz — TLS 1.3 Library For Speed and Security
2018-08-07 12:18

Facebook has open sourced Fizz—a library designed to help developers implement TLS 1.3 protocol with all recommended security and performance related configurations. Since late last month, Google...

Facebook Open Sources TLS 1.3 Library
2018-08-07 11:42

Facebook on Monday announced the open source availability of Fizz, a TLS library written in C++ 14 that includes the new generation of Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3). read more

Facebook cracks opens its bottle of Fizz – a carbonated TLS 1.3 lib
2018-08-06 16:00

Crypto-code unleashed to inflict security, performance and stability on devs Looking for a TLS 1.3 library? Facebook has you covered. On Monday, the ads and data peddler plans to release Fizz, a...

Data Theorem’s TLS pinning protects data from eavesdropping
2018-07-25 10:47

Data Theorem announced that mobile applications equipped with TrustKit, Data Theorem’s Transport Layer Security (TLS) pinning library, protect the transmission of data. The new level of mobile app...

Huawei enterprise comms kit has a TLS crypto bug
2018-07-04 06:01

You don't want insecure kit from a vendor the Pentagon hates, do you? Huawei has rolled patches to various enterprise and broadcast products to fix a cryptography bug.…

New Phishing Scam Reels in Netflix Users to TLS-Certified Sites
2018-06-20 19:43

Researchers are warning of a new Netflix phishing scam that leads to sites with valid TLS certificates.

PayPal reminds users: TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 are longer optional
2018-06-20 03:52

Insecure connections will break after June 30th. And it's acquired Hyperwallet, too PayPal has reminded merchants that they must support TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 by June 30.…

It's time for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to die (die, die)
2018-06-19 01:18

IETF floats formal deprecation suggestion, even for failback As TLS 1.3 inches towards publication into the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC series, it's a surprise to realise that there are...