Furthering Microsoft’s push to support open source, the company has announced that it plans to add Secure Shell (SSH) support to Windows in the future. SSH is a protocol that allows users to access ...

Most IT pros realize that using Telnet to manage routers, switches, and firewalls is insecure. Transmitted in clear text across a network, Telnet traffic basically publicizes any login usernames and ...

The OpenSSH project is getting protection against side-channel attacks that are known to leak data from a computer's memory, and allow malicious threat actors to steal sensitive information. The ...

The OpenSSH protocol goes way back, but it's recently been making the news. The open source protocol, which adds security around remote server access and file transfers, is perhaps so ubiquitously ...

Bottom line: Security researchers have devised a new way to steal cryptographic keys in Secure Shell (SSH) computer-to-server communication. Compromised SSH connections could allow bad actors to ...

Academic researchers developed a new attack called Terrapin that manipulates sequence numbers during the handshake process to break the SSH channel integrity when certain widely-used encryption modes ...

A commit for the OpenSSH project adds protection for private keys in memory when they are not in use, making it more difficult for an adversary to extract them through side-channel attacks leveraging ...

Rapid7 warned this week that its Nexpose appliances were shipped with a SSH configuration that could have let obsolete algorithms be used for key exchange. Rapid7 encouraged owners of its Nexpose ...

Most IT pros know that using Telnet to manage routers, switches, and firewalls is not exactly a security best practice. Instead, the accepted alternative to Telnet's lack of security is Secure Shell ...