Thanks to the boom in smartphone usage over the last few years, mobile apps have become the preferred way to do everything from dating to banking. However, while websites are securing data in ...

Secure Sockets Layer has been implicated in several security problems of late. Certificate pinning might patch it up for a bit longer. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) just can’t catch a break these days.

Security researchers did a limited assessment of the iOS and Android versions of WhatsApp and discovered a number of issues around the way the app uses SSL. The Facebook acquisition of mobile ...

A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates. Called TACK ...