- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 28th, 2017
Chrome 56 Crypto Upgrade Causes Thousands of Computers Using BlueCoat to Fail
The problem comes from BlueCoat, other proxies in failing to support TLS 1.3, blocking Internet access in the process
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 21st, 2016
Comodo Disables Faulty OCR That Sent Certificates to the Wrong Persons
Comodo disabled faulty component back in September
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 14th, 2016
Sharp Increase in Malware Utilizing SSL
SSL malware samples, C&C servers, grow manifolds
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 28th, 2016
OpenSSL Project Patches Two Security Bugs, One Labeled Critical
OpenSSL team fixes SSLv2 downgrade issue
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 5th, 2016
60 Percent of Banks Operating in the UK Have Weak Crypto
Login pages vulnerable to a large number of SSL attacks
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 21st, 2015
Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years
Banking industry needs more time, has too much on its plate
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 7th, 2015
Prevent Certificate Blunders with the Certificate Expiry Monitor
Get notified whenever an SSL/TLS certificate expires, and avoid being ridiculed by your sysadmin friends
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 19th, 2015
Better SSL Error Indicators to Be Added in Firefox 44
Users will be able to skip some certificate error warnings
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 7th, 2015
Zero-Day Exploit Found in Avast Antivirus
Avast was vulnerable to malicious HTTPS connections
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 7th, 2015
Researchers Compromise Windows Server OS Using Its Update Service
It only happens if sys admins forget to turn on SSL for WSUS
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 17th, 2015
Free-of-Charge SSL/TLS Certificates to Be Available Next Month
Let's Encrypt project gets closer to its launch date
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 2nd, 2015
MySQL Vulnerability Allows Client to Send Data via Unencrypted Connection
Flaw is exploitable via man-in-the-middle attacks
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 25th, 2015
Over 25,000 iOS Apps Affected by Bug Breaking HTTPS
Apps from major developers are impacted by the flaw
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 22nd, 2015
SSL Certificate Parsing Bug Crashes iOS Devices Connected to Bad Wi-Fi
Apps relying on SSL communication can also be crashed
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 20th, 2015
New Variant of Upatre Malware Downloader Integrates Full SSL Encryption
Upatre evolved from a basic threat to a sophisticated piece
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 26th, 2015
13-Year-Old Weakness in RC4 Encryption Breaks SSL/TLS
Bar Mitzvah attack does not require MitM position
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 18th, 2015
Microsoft Missed Warning from Admin Who Got Certificate for Windows Live Domain
Finnish man gets locked out of email, phone and Xbox account