Websites and companies that rely on OpenSSL should patch their systems as soon as possible. The developer of Open SSL, a widely used open-source encryption library, released Tuesday a patch to fix two ...

Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

Google is developing its own version of OpenSSL that will be more appropriate for its own software products, which have been using the critical encryption component for years with customized patches.

Nine software fixes were released Wednesday for OpenSSL, a critical encryption component for exchanging data on the web, although none of the problems are as severe as the “Heartbleed” issue found in ...

…there is a real question as to whether this bug puts all OpenSSL users outside what’s called the “encryption safe harbor” in most of the state data breach notification laws and HIPAA. As if regularly ...