Websites and companies that rely on OpenSSL should patch their systems as soon as possible. The developer of Open SSL, a widely used open-source encryption library, released Tuesday a patch to fix two ...

Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

Google is developing its own version of OpenSSL that will be more appropriate for its own software products, which have been using the critical encryption component for years with customized patches.

There’s an important caveat about encrypted traffic from new research released this week: Encryption works so well that hackers are using it as cover. A new study from A10 and the Ponemon Institute ...

Hackers are increasingly benefiting from poorly managed encryption technologies deployed by organizations, according to a new report from application networking and security firm A10 Networks in ...