An academic paper published last month has shed new light on a new user tracking technique that takes advantage of a legitimate mechanism associated with the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol ...

One of the most common uses of network systems is for e-mail-based communications. As such, a great deal of attention has been given to securing e-mail systems. However, most of this focus has been in ...

A surprisingly large number of antivirus and security products are undermining HTTPS connections and exposing browser users to decryption attacks, according to a study by researchers at Google, ...

Raccoon is the next flashy security flaw with a name, cute logo, and a website (and a PDF). Raccoon is a flaw in TLS version prior to 1.3, and seems to be a clever bit of work, albeit one with limited ...

Almost every year, there is a call from a politician, often from the US, to ban the use of encrypted communication platforms. Occasionally this escalates to demands for “backdoors” to be placed in ...

In data communications it is desirable to have faster transfer rates at lower costs. Data compression addresses these demands by reducing the amount of data that must be transferred over a medium of ...

Despite safeguards in TLS 1.3, China is still censoring HTTPS communications, according to a new report. There are workarounds to this. Plus, how TLS can be used as an attack vector. The Transport ...

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 ...

HTTP/3 brings improved performance and reliability, along with various security and privacy benefits, but there are some noteworthy challenges. HTTP3, the third official version of hypertext transfer ...