Using OpenSSL to verify SSL/TLS connections
OpenSSL is a general-purpose cryptography library and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It’s licensed under the Apache License 2.0, meaning that you are free to get and use it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, subject to a few simple license conditions. Using OpenSSL to check […]
Web security is improving, but so much more to be done
A much-anticipated report from Rapid7, a cybersecurity company based in Boston USA, revealed “frankly shocking” news concerning the current global state of security on the Internet in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the massive cross-industry study, completed in the summer of 2020, the findings revealed that despite enormous security problems from the […]