Neowin News Feed for: Ssl

Latest Edge 108 Stable brings better privacy with ECH, adds another helpful feature

Sayan Sen — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:22:01 +0000

Microsoft Edge has reached its latest stable version 108.0.1462.42. The new version helps enhance privacy with the help of the TLS-encrypted ECH. There are a couple of more features in it too. Read more...

Microsoft issues out-of-band update (KB5020435) to Windows 10 to fix connection issues

Paul Hill — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 05:46:38 +0000

Microsoft has released an out-of-band (OOB) update for Windows 10 versions that addresses an issue with SSL and TLS. The issue was introduced with the recent October Patch Tuesday update. Read more...

GoDaddy reports breach to the SEC, says investigation is still ongoing

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 20:22:01 +0000

GoDaddy has told the SEC that its systems have been compromised since September 6. It noticed the breach on November 17 and is now working to change exposed passwords and other affected data. Read more...

Google Registry releases .page top-level domain with SSL by default

Paul Hill — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:41:57 +0000

Google has announced the availability of .page top-level domains. The firm has opened an Early Access Program but for an extra fee you can buy a domain right now from one of Google's partners. Read more...

WordPress.com turns on free full HTTPS for all websites through the Let's Encrypt project

Steven Johns — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:32:01 +0000

WordPress.com, the paid side of WordPress, has started to utilize the Let's Encrypt project to enable HTTPS for all of the websites with custom domains that are hosted on the service. Read more...

Gmail will soon warn its users when a message from an unencrypted connection arrives

Justin Luna — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:50:02 +0000

In a move to improve email security, Gmail will be implementing a new feature that warns a user if an incoming email is unencrypted. The feature will roll out in the months to come. Read more...

Plex partners with DigiCert to offer SSL certificates to all media streaming users

Chris Dupres — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:40:01 +0000

In a long awaited move by Plex users, the media-streaming software provider has announced a partnership with DigiCert to provide free SSL streaming to all Plex Media Server users. Read more...

Microsoft pulls 'improperly issued' SSL certificate

Brad Sams — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:57:03 +0000

Microsoft has posted an alert saying that they have revoked an improperly issued SSL certificate that could have impacted all version of Windows but automatic updates should take care of the issue. Read more...

Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates

Steven Johns — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:10:01 +0000

SSL certificates exist to increase security and prevent snooping on your browsing sessions. Gogo believes you shouldn't have that and appears to be intentionally performing MITM attacks on its users. Read more...

POODLE attack shows that all SSLv3 connections are insecure

Christopher White — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:52:01 +0000

Google researchers released a paper that describes how SSLv3 can be compromised to steal sensitive information, pretty much forcing all webservers to only support the newer TLS protocols. Read more...

Security consultant condemns hotel booking site for "appalling" data leak

Andy Weir — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:15:19 +0000

A hotel booking site allowed anyone to view its customers' data by simply changing a booking reference number in the address bar, and ignored repeated warnings from a security expert about the issue. Read more...

Report claims most, but not all, top websites have fixed OpenSSL 'Heartbleed' exploit

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:03:30 +0000

A new report from the Sucuri security firm claims most of the top visited websites have now closed the OpenSSL "Heartbleed" exploit, but over 20,000 of the top 1 million sites are still vunerable. Read more...

Abyss Web Server X1 2.9.3.2

Razvan Serea — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:57:24 +0000

Abyss Web Server enables you to host your Web sites on your computer. It supports secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS) as well as a wide range of Web technologies. Read more...

Serious vulnerability found in SSL/TLS on OS X Mavericks and iOS, easily exploitable [Update]

Steven Johns — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 04:45:18 +0000

Significant flaw revealed in Apple iOS, and potentially also affecting Apple OSX Mavericks Read more...

Comodo SSL certificates compromised

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:54:59 +0000

Whenever you visit a secure website (HTTPS) your browser verifies that site is properly secured based on the sites certificate. If the site doesn't have a valid certificate, most browsers make it pretty clear that... Read more...

Google says encrypted searches are optional

Steven Parker — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:50:17 +0000

Neowin has been contacted by Google Global Communications Officer, Jay Nancarrow, who said in a follow up to this story posted two weeks ago: "I wanted to reach out to let you know that we... Read more...

Google begins rolling out encrypted searches

Steven Parker — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:57:10 +0000

Some of our members have noticed that the Google Chrome browser has begun using https:// encrypted.google.com as default in the United States, instead of the unencrypted https://www.google.com site. While this might not affect everyone using... Read more...