A team of academics has revealed a new cryptographic attack this week that can break encrypted TLS traffic, allowing attackers to intercept and steal data previously considered safe & secure. This new ...

Is your data secure? Researchers recently discovered a new variation of the Bleichenbacher oracle attack that could threaten TLS 1.3 encryption. Seven researchers discovered that OpenSSL, Amazon s2n, ...

Yahoo has started to automatically encrypt connections between users and its email service, adding an important security layer that rival Gmail has had for almost four years, but its implementation ...

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages. If you ...

The adoption of devices for the internet of things will depend very much on their communication to the Internet being secure. There are many aspects to being able to secure connections between client ...

Yahoo Mail had support for full-session HTTPS — SSL/TLS encryption over HTTP — since late 2012, but users had to opt in to use the feature. Tuesday, the company delivered on a promise that it made in ...

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced a new project named STARTTLS Everywhere that aims to provide guidance to server administrators on how to set up a proper email server that runs ...

The volume of malware hidden in encrypted traffic has doubled over the past few months as threat actors look to circumvent security tools, according to Sophos. The security vendor claimed that 23% of ...

More than 90 percent of Android apps running on the latest OS encrypt their traffic by default. A full 80 percent of Android apps are encrypting their traffic by default, according to a Transport ...

TL;DR: WeChat messages and conversations are not encrypted end-to-end, meaning the app's servers can decrypt and read every message. However, users of the popular messaging app might be concerned to ...