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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS), the key protocol that enables HTTPS on the web. TLS 1.3 was approved by engineers at an IETF ...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols are responsible for keeping most of the internet secure by encrypting communications between client and server applications. This includes all sorts of ...

For security purposes, it's best to stay away from Internet Explorer. But if you do run it, follow these steps to ensure it uses TLS 1.2. I rarely write about Internet Explorer. In part, its because I ...

TLS developers fixed the flaw in 2006 by updating the protocol to version 1.1. An even safer, 1.2 version, was defined in 2008. The problem is, almost no one uses the 1.1 and 1.2 protocols, said Tom ...

An academic paper published last month has shed new light on a new user tracking technique that takes advantage of a legitimate mechanism associated with the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol ...

What just happened? Last Friday, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) completed a major overhaul of TLS 1.2, the internet security protocol used to secure encrypted website connections. Version ...

Russia is offering these certificates to replace foreign security certs that sites are unable to renew as a result of sanctions. Russia has set up its own Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate ...

The noose around the neck of the Internet’s most widely used encryption scheme got a little tighter this month with the disclosure of two new attacks that can retrieve passwords, credit card numbers ...

Although the TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.2 protocol, designed to make network connections more secure, was defined in 2008, a security expert at Black Hat Europe this week in Amsterdam said it ...