Security News

Over 100,000 Fake Domains With Valid TLS Certificates Target Major Retailers
2019-11-15 09:29

Venafi, a company that helps organizations secure cryptographic keys and digital certificates, says it has uncovered over 100,000 typosquatted domains with valid TLS certificates that appear to...

Explained: How New 'Delegated Credentials' Boosts TLS Protocol Security
2019-11-06 09:19

Mozilla, in partnership with Facebook, Cloudflare, and other IETF community members, has announced technical specifications for a new cryptographic protocol called "Delegated Credentials for TLS."...

Analysis reveals the most common causes behind mis-issued SSL/TLS certificates
2019-10-14 11:35

We should be able to trust public key certificates, but this is the real world: mistakes and “mistakes” happen. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington have analyzed 379 reported instances...

New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
2019-10-10 18:49

Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting the computer with hacked TLS...

Critical TLS flaw opens Exim servers to remote compromise
2019-09-10 10:06

A ‘critical’ security vulnerability has been discovered in the Exim mail server that requires admins' urgent attention.

Exim TLS Flaw Opens Email Servers to Remote 'Root' Code Execution Attacks
2019-09-06 13:04

A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the popular open-source Exim email server software, leaving at least over half a million email servers vulnerable to remote...

Microsoft preps to purge its cloud access security broker of shonky crypto protocols TLS 1.0, 1.1
2019-07-29 22:00

Still not migrated? You have until 8 September Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 is to be axed for users of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) from 8 September as the company shores up...

Firefox to Automatically Trust OS-Installed CA Certificates to Prevent TLS Errors
2019-07-02 07:48

Mozilla has finally introduced a mechanism to let Firefox browser automatically fix certain TLS errors, often triggered when antivirus software installed on a system tries to intercept secure...

Firefox Update to Address Antivirus TLS Errors
2019-07-02 05:57

Mozilla revealed on Monday that the upcoming Firefox 68 will address TLS issues caused by antiviruses by automatically making changes to the browser’s configuration when a man-in-the-middle (MitM)...

How to install an FTP server and secure it with TLS
2019-06-19 15:46

Gain more security with your open source FTP server with the help of OpenSSL and TLS.