However, a new initiative backed by some major players (like Cisco, Google, Mozilla, and many others) wants to give you a free SSL certificate. One reason they can afford to do this is they have ...

The vulnerability means that attackers can lurk in the middle of what victims think are secure SSL sessions with banks, retailers and other secure Web sites, picking off passwords and other ...

Instead of cracking or forging digital certificates, as has been seen with the recent DigiNotar controversy, the SSL hack goes straight to the heart of how it works. Duong and Rizzo have created a ...

Channel partners say that the DigiNotar hack has weakened the sense of security users have in SSL certification. ’If you can’t trust the trusted authority, who in the cloud can I trust?

Mozilla developers have immortalized the great SSL hack that researchers discussed at the Chaos Communication Congress last December. You remember this one, an international team of researchers ...

The company, DigiNotar, issues SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and EVSSL (Extended Validation) certificates, which are validated by Web browsers to ensure people are not visiting a fake website that is ...

IT consultancy firm Fox-IT, enlisted by DigiNotar to investigate the SSL hack dubbed Operation Black Tulip, revealed in an Interim Report Monday that numerous servers had been compromised by ...

It’s still not clear whether the writer was truly behind the SSL hack, or even if the attack really came from Iran. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are easy to spoof, and any good hacker covers ...

A flaw in the protocol used to secure communications over the Internet could have been used to hack Twitter accounts ... demonstrated how a flaw in the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol could ...

In the report, SecurityVibes members have mentioned an even more alarming SSL hack using Moxie Marlinspike's SSLstrip technology, which Chai claims is currently more difficult to defend against.

The Dutch government was unprepared to handle an SSL hack that caused the government’s communication infrastructure to be vulnerable for months, the Dutch Safety Board said in report on Thursday.

Apple is keeping mum about when – or if – it will blacklist SSL certificates more than a week after other browser makers moved to break trust with the disgraced Dutch certificate authority ...