SmoothWall – According to study from Netcraft, the number of websites using SSL encryption has risen by nearly 40% in the last year, and now totals well over two million. In addition to the obvious ...

newsmaker At the RSA Conference last month in San Francisco, Taher Elgamal was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award--only the third recipient of the award since its inception in 2004. The chief ...

LAS VEGAS — There are plenty of reasons that a company might want to try and decrypt SSL sessions — to stop outbound malware botnet connections that are decrypted, or to stop a rogue insider from ...

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The Secure Sockets Layer protocol for secure Web transfers was first developed by Netscape in 1994. Since then, it has a ubiquitous tool for setting up encrypted communications over the Internet. SSL ...

The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s simply too easy to snoop, spoof, and steal unprotected information as it travels over the wires. Last month, I wrote the final article in a series on X.509 ...

I was sitting in a local coffee shop recently and, since I was bored, I kicked on a Windows instance in VirtualBox on my Mint Linux-powered laptop so I could run Firesheep. Firesheep was, and is, a ...

Learn how online casinos use security technologies, which include SSL, firewalls, and 2FA. Discover safety tips and the ...

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 ...

The Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers download Secure Sockets Layer security certificates from websites that use SSL security. However, if you don't want to use SSL for any reason, you can ...