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 ...

The vulnerability in the widely used OpenSSL library used to secure Web transmissions allows attackers to scrape memory from servers, grabbing sensitive information.

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 ...

OpenSSL says hackers took advantage of a weak password used at its hosting provider to gain access to a hypervisor and deface the organization’s website.

OpenSSL, unlike GnuPG, does not automatically detect the file type or even what algorithm, key length and mode were used to encrypt a file. You need to keep track of that yourself.

How to Encrypt a File Using OpenSSL. Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that ...

Researchers have uncovered an extremely critical vulnerability in recent versions of OpenSSL, a technology that allows millions of Web sites to encrypt communications with visitors. Complicating ...

If you bank online or sign into work remotely using a virtual private network, your data may not be safe. A flaw in the encryption program OpenSSL could expose much of the encrypted traffic.