A number of popular apps are vulnerable to a 'man-in-the-middle'attack due to poorly implemented TLS protection, an examination of apps in the iOS App Store has revealed, with a security researcher ...

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Post-quantum security revolves around staying in the race because when quantum arrives, it won’t send a warning. Those who ...

The TLS protocol, which provides the encryption that makes secure web transactions possible, is in dire need of an upgrade. It last saw a big update when version 1.2 was released nearly ten years ago, ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published its 1.3 version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The application allows client/server applications to communicate over the ...

The ‘CRIME’ attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure ...