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October 2020 Security Roundup
Welcome to the October edition of the SSL.com’s Security Roundup! For this very special Halloween edition, we’ve kept our content exactly the same. After all, what’s spookier than digital security worries and faulty encryption? And did you know that SSL.com now has an email newsletter too? Fill out the form
Read More » Elizabeth Pagano October 30, 2020
HIPAA-Compliant IoT Solutions
HIPAA and the IoT The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially, with some reports predicting it reaching over 38 billion devices in 2020. With more and more stories emerging of hacked devices coming out, the need to secure the Internet of Things is becoming more urgent, more so for
Read More » Connor Wilson October 29, 2020
Digital Certificates for HIPAA-Compliant Communication
Digital certificates from SSL.com can be an important part of a health care organization’s plans for HIPAA-compliant email, authentication, and websites.
Read More » Aaron Russell October 22, 2020
September 2020 Security Roundup
Welcome to September’s edition of SSL.com’s monthly Security Roundup! Today we’ll be talking about: SSL.com’s brand-new newsletter Changes to the CA/B Forum’s EV SSL Guidelines Russia’s plans to ban protocols that hide the destination of internet traffic The Raccoon Attack on TLS versions 1.2 and earlier Insecure Internet of Things
Read More » Elizabeth Pagano September 30, 2020
Authenticating Users and IoT Devices with Mutual TLS
One-Way and Mutual SSL/TLS Authentication One of the defining features of the SSL/TLS protocol is its role in authenticating otherwise anonymous parties on computer networks (such as the internet). When you visit a website with a publicly trusted SSL/TLS certificate, your browser can verify that the website owner has successfully
Read More » Aaron Russell September 22, 2020
“Raccoon Attack” Targets TLS 1.2 and Earlier, but Is Difficult to Exploit
There’s a new type of SSL/TLS attack in town. A team of academic security researchers recently released a paper introducing the Raccoon attack. Raccoon is a timing vulnerability in the TLS specification which impacts HTTPS and other services reliant on SSL/TLS. Under very specific and rare conditions, Raccoon allows malicious
Read More » Connor Wilson September 17, 2020
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