Microsoft has issued a security advisory about an exploit that can decrypt SSL and TLS Web traffic. While actual attacks are considered improbable, a security patch to protect Microsoft software is ...

The FREAK security bug that allows attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections encrypted using an outmoded cipher has ...

Microsoft is offering more guidance regarding a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 security flaw, including how to disable SSL 3.0 for users of Exchange Server and Azure Websites. SSL 3.0 is an encryption ...

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers. Microsoft’s Internet ...

Microsoft Corp. said yesterday that the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) flaw recently uncovered by an independent researcher is in multiple versions of the Windows operating system, not its Internet ...

We tested Whale Communications’ SSL VPN back in 2003 and the product didn’t fare very well. Microsoft bought Whale in 2006, jettisoned some of the strange idiosyncracies of the product, dramatically ...

A cryptographic certificate Microsoft generated three weeks ago to authenticate the servers used to deliver updates to hundreds of millions of Windows users has received a failing grade from a widely ...

Today, we continue our discussion of the Microsoft Secure Sockets Layer buffer overflow vulnerability. According to Netcraft’s March survey of SSL servers, some 39% of all Web facing servers that ...

Microsoft plans to disable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 encryption support in its Azure Storage service next month. Azure Storage won't support the SSL 3.0 security protocol starting on Feb. 20, ...