https://rietta.com/glossary/ssl/ Recent content in SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) on Rietta Cybersecurity Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us 1999-2026 Rietta Inc. All Rights Reserved. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:35:25 -0400 https://rietta.com/blog/migrate-away-from-ssl-early-tls-for-pci-compliance/ Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:00:00 -0500 https://rietta.com/blog/migrate-away-from-ssl-early-tls-for-pci-compliance/ <p>Systems that handle payment information, particularly e-commerce systems, are regulated by PCI DSS. Changes to the PCI compliance requirements have reclassified the use of outdated and insecure versions of TLS (and its predecessor, SSL) as non-compliant. This has some significant impact across the software industry as the changes went into enforcement today, June 30, 2018. The key takeaways for us as web application developers are that we must ensure that our deployed systems are using modern and secure TLS configurations, and that we should now do so at the expense of supporting legacy web browsers that are non-compliant, namely old versions of Internet Explorer and Windows.</p> https://rietta.com/blog/how-to-protect-against-the-poodle-sslv3-vulnerability/ Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:21:22 -0400 https://rietta.com/blog/how-to-protect-against-the-poodle-sslv3-vulnerability/ <p>The <acronym title="Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption">POODLE</acronym> SSL vulnerability marks the third major security flaw discovered this year that impacts the security of millions of websites.</p> <p>The attack works by forcing the connection to downgrade from the newer TLS protocol to the 18 year old SSL 3 protocol, which is obsolete and insecure, and then utilizing a weakness to calculate small strings of data from the encrypted communication, such as session cookies.</p>