Hackers threaten banking software. (Virus Notes).Britain's retail banks face a threat from widely-used Web server software as computer hacking enters a new era, reports Radware. Microsoft's SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (Secure Socket Layer) Web server software can be broken into rapidly by hackers, posing a particular risk to the large number banks using it for Internet banking systems. The risk is heightened when IT administrators fail to deploy SSL properly across their systems. Comment: Radware's CertainT 100 features SSL encryption/decryption capabilities, to assist SSL security for fast, switching to facilitate online transactions without network degradation. This is achieved by relieving networked Web servers of performing the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. intensive SSL encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. and decryption (cryptography) decryption - Any procedure used in cryptography to convert ciphertext (encrypted data) into plaintext. calculations associated with c-commerce applications. www.radware.com |
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