Articles tagged with TLS

NSA shares guidance, tools to mitigate weak encryption protocols

The National Security Agency has shared guidance on how to detect and replace outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions with up to date and secure variants.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 05, 2021
- 03:15 PM
- 0
You have two days left to purchase 2-year TLS/SSL certificates

If you are looking to purchase a 2-year TLS or SSL certificate, you have only two days left before all new certificates will have a maximum 397 day validity period.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 30, 2020
- 02:37 PM
- 0
Microsoft to remove insecure TLS support on its Linux Software Repository

Microsoft is discontinuing support for the insecure TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols on its Linux Software Repository starting with September 24, 2020.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 28, 2020
- 08:32 AM
- 0
Microsoft enables TLS 1.3 by default in latest Windows 10 builds

Microsoft says that TLS 1.3 will be enabled by default in all Windows 10 Insider Preview builds beginning with Build 20170 as the start of a wider rollout to all Windows 10 systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 20, 2020
- 03:49 PM
- 0
Expired certificate led to an undercount of COVID-19 results

An expired certificate and outage led to an undercounting of COVID-19 cases reported in California after 250,00-300,000 lab results were prevented from being uploaded to California's CalREDIE reporting system.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 13, 2020
- 04:36 PM
- 1
Microsoft will disable insecure TLS in Office 365 on Oct 15

Microsoft has set the official retirement date for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Office 365 starting with October 15, 2020, after temporarily halting deprecation enforcement for commercial customers due to COVID-19.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 20, 2020
- 04:57 PM
- 1
Mozilla reduces TLS certificate lifespan to 1 year in September

Mozilla has officially announced that starting September 1st, 2020, they will no longer consider any newly issued certificates with a lifespan greater than 398 days, or a little over one year, as valid.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 10, 2020
- 11:37 AM
- 0
Expiring SSL certs expected to break smart TVs, fridges, and IoTs

On May 30th, select Roku streaming channels stopped working, leaving impacted customers clueless with no idea what was wrong.
- Ax Sharma
- June 10, 2020
- 05:46 PM
- 2
Microsoft Delays Disabling Insecure TLS in Browsers Until July

Microsoft announced today that it will delay disabling support for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols from Microsoft web browsers because of the current global situation until the second half of 2020, with an estimated time of roll out during July.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 31, 2020
- 02:38 PM
- 0
Firefox Reenables Insecure TLS to Improve Access to COVID19 Info

Mozilla says that the support for the insecure TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be reenabled in the latest version of Firefox to maintain access to government sites with COVID19 information that haven't yet upgraded to TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 20, 2020
- 11:24 AM
- 2
Firefox 74 Released: Security Fixes, Improvements, and Fixes

Mozilla has released Firefox 74 today, March 10th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux with bug fixes, new features, and security fixes.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 10, 2020
- 03:07 PM
- 0
Facebook's Tor Site Down for Over a Week Due to Expired TLS Cert

Facebook has announced that its Tor gateway will be down for one to two weeks due to an expired TLS certificate. This is a bit strange as it normally should not take two weeks to renew a certificate.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 17, 2019
- 05:30 AM
- 1
80% of All Android Apps Now Use Encrypted Network Traffic

Google has announced that as of October 2019, 80% of all Android apps are now using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt their network traffic.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 03, 2019
- 01:00 PM
- 0
NSA Publishes Advisory Addressing Encrypted Traffic Inspection Risks

The National Security Agency (NSA) published an advisory that addresses the risks behind Transport Layer Security Inspection (TLSI) and provides mitigation measures for weakened security in organizations that use TLSI products.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 19, 2019
- 05:26 PM
- 0
Microsoft Shares Solutions for Windows TLS Failures, Timeouts

Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue affecting several Windows versions that could lead to Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections intermittently failing or getting timed out.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 31, 2019
- 03:41 PM
- 0
Hackers Patch Web Browsers to Track Encrypted Traffic

Researchers have found a new piece of malware, likely from an advanced threat group, that can patch Chrome and Firefox browsers to identify the encrypted traffic from a victim's computer.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 08, 2019
- 03:28 AM
- 0
Microsoft Adds 'Disable Legacy TLS' Feature to Windows Server 2019

Microsoft announced the addition of a new Windows Server 2019 feature that will enable admins to enforce Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions by blocking legacy ones via certificate binding.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 30, 2019
- 02:20 PM
- 0
Chrome and Firefox Changes Spark the End of EV Certificates

Upcoming changes in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox may finally spark the end for Extended Validation certificates as the browsers plan to do away with showing a company's name in the address bar.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 14, 2019
- 06:00 PM
- 1
Phishing Websites Increase Adoption of HTTPS

As the adoption of cryptographic protocols for secure website communication increased, cybercrooks also moved to HTTPS to keep their operation floating.
- Ionut Ilascu
- June 21, 2019
- 03:12 AM
- 0
Attackers Evade Detection By Randomizing TLS Handshake Ciphers

Cybercriminals are using a new method to evade detection to make sure that the traffic generated by their malicious campaigns is not being detected, a technique based on SSL/TLS signature randomization and dubbed cipher stunting.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 15, 2019
- 01:13 PM
- 0