The Android platform quickly has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems for both developers and end users. As such, security is a high priority, but so is the sometimes-conflicting ...

One of the great things about open source is the availability of diverse approaches. This article examines the critical importance of performance scalability in SSL/TLS libraries, using recent shifts ...

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SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is currently the most widely deployed security protocol. It is the security protocol behind secure HTTP (HTTPS), and thus is responsible for the little lock in the corner of ...

A serious vulnerability that could be exploited to crash TLS clients and potentially execute malicious code on underlying systems was patched in the popular GnuTLS cryptographic library. The memory ...

A PDF version of this article, as well as a zip archive of the code samples, are available in the downloads section, below. The Intel® Galileo development board is an Arduino*-certified development ...

Leuven, BE – 20 March 2012 – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.eu), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and leading providers of online security solutions, today announced that it ...

Google released a tool that can be used to test whether the SSL/TLS encrypted connections opened by applications or devices are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. A man-in-the-middle (MitM) ...

There is a vulnerability in PolarSSL, an open-source SSL library used in a variety of products, that could enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code under some circumstances. The vulnerability is ...