If a background tool, Office ad-in or older software all of a sudden can’t connect to a mail server or a website, a legacy ...

The padlock icon displayed in the browser's address bar. It looks safe, but what does the padlock icon actually mean?What is ...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard protocol that provides authentication, privacy and data integrity between two communicating computer applications.

If you’ve followed the steps we laid out in our initial feature, you’ve got a safe Nginx server all set up and working. It’s serving your static pages without any issue. We don’t yet have a database, ...

Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. That’s a broad statement, but it ...

In data communications it is desirable to have faster transfer rates at lower costs. Data compression addresses these demands by reducing the amount of data that must be transferred over a medium of ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Part 6 of a six-part article: Just because you checked a few boxes on your Microsoft Exchange Server does not mean that there is secure TLS encryption between your domain and another SMTP server that ...

This post is the second part of my series around the impact of encrypted protocols on network security. You can find the first article about HTTP/2 here: Now let us focus on the new and upcoming ...

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 ...