Ars Technica

SSTP VPN with client machine certificate authentication

We've got a Windows SSTP VPN Server setup, where our domain clients authenticate with their AD credentials. Problem: It's possible to connect from any machine to our VPN. We'd like to change the ...
Ars Technica

In public key authentication, why are the private keys used with the client and not the other way around?

I'm trying to understand how public key authentication works and with tools such as ChatGPT I'm able to resolve how it works; the server keeps a tab of "authorized" public keys and uses them to ...
Threat Post

FortiGate VPN Default Config Allows MitM Attacks

The client’s default configuration for SSL-VPN has a certificate issue, researchers said. Default configurations of Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN appliance could open organizations to man-in-the-middle ...
Electronic Design

Run-Time Provisioning of Security Credentials for IoT Devices

To prevent counterfeit devices from joining a network or to limit the opportunity for network attacks, it’s important to authenticate devices attempting to join Internet of Things (IoT) networks and ...
Network World

Microsoft moves to block MD5 certificates and improve RDP authentication

Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop ...
Houston Chronicle

Can Two SSL Certificates Sit on the Same IP?

Using certificates to authenticate your business website is a must when dealing with Secure Sockets Layer or Transport Layer Security traffic. The Server Name Indication extension to the TLS protocol ...