Who really made your software? The technology that protects consumers from spoof websites could be unleashed as the next weapon in the fight against malware. Security company Verisign is looking at ...

Software bugs and misinterpretations of industry standards are at the heart of most cases of incorrectly-issued SSL certificates -- accounting for 42% of all incidents --, a recent academic study has ...

Heartbleed wasn't the first security hole discovered in SSL deployments, and it won't be the last. The discovery of the dangerous flaw in a widely deployed SSL software platform, OpenSSL, initially ...

Thanks to Google and Facebook, awareness of Transport Layer Security (TLS), formerly known a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology, is now fairly high. In fact, adoption of TLS/SSL is so ...

The death knell for SSL is getting louder.Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University have discovered that poorly designed APIs used in SSL implementations are to blame ...

If you were tried to install OS X software updates this weekend, you might have noticed that you…can’t. As MacRumors points out, OS X users who attempt to install ...

Thursday’s revelations that Lenovo PCs ship with adware that intercepts sensitive HTTPS-protected traffic have focused intense scrutiny on Superfish, the company that markets the intrusive software.

F5 is upgrading the software for its SSL VPN gear to make it easier to use and to manage. Called EasyConnect, the FirePass 6.0 version software includes a single sign-on feature that enables users to ...