For many merchants, the quarterly ASV scan brings back a range of findings relating to weak SSL ciphers and/or implementation of SSLv2 that results in a failing score. Often this can be a time ...

For the nth time in the last couple of years, security experts are warning about a new Internet-scale vulnerability, this time in some popular SSL clients. The flaw allows an attacker to force clients ...

The Mozilla Foundation will join fellow browser makers Microsoft and Google to disable the weak RC4 cipher in the upcoming 4.4 version of its Firefox web browser. RC4 was created by Ron Rivest, one of ...

More than 11 million websites and e-mail services protected by the transport layer security protocol are vulnerable to a newly discovered, low-cost attack that decrypts sensitive communications in a ...

FREAK enables SSL Man-in-the-Middle attacks because of bad security decisions made almost two decades ago. As Andrew Avanessian, Avecto's EVP of consultancy and technology services, told me in an ...

Microsoft patched serious vulnerabilities Tuesday in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office, but also urged customers to stop using the aging RC4 cipher and SHA-1 hashing function in their systems and ...

Microsoft's scheduled security patches were accompanied by cryptography-related recommendations to stop using RC4 cipher and SHA-1 Microsoft patched serious vulnerabilities Tuesday in Windows, ...