SSL and TLS play critical roles in securing data transmission over the internet, and AES-256 is integral in their most secure configurations. The original standard was known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Although it was replaced by Transport Layer Security (TLS), many in the industry still refer to TLS by its predecessor’s acronym. While TLS […]
If you are allowing Mozilla FireFox or Thunderbird to remember passwords to web sites and/or email accounts in their Password Manager tool, you should know that these passwords are all stored in a plain text file (base64 encoded) on your computer’s disk drive. This file is accessible to anyone with administrative access to your computer. […]
FTP, the “File Transfer Protocol” has been around almost since the inception of the Internet. As anyone with a web site knows, it permits files to be easily uploaded to and downloaded from servers. It is built into every kind of web site authoring software and even into most web browsers. Unfortunately, FTP suffers from […]
