Nearly everyone uses FTP for one reason or another. The problem is, FTP is a messy protocol that needs a lot of help to secure it. Let Thomas Shinder enlighten you. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is ...

For decades, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has been used in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry to move files between servers and for distributing them around the world. And for just as long, ...

Mozilla has announced plans today to remove support for the FTP protocol from Firefox. Going forward, users won't be able to download files via the FTP protocol and view the content of FTP ...

There was a time when you could do almost anything in a web browser or could at least install extensions to do what the browser natively can't. While the craze of turning browsers into Swiss Army ...

It appears that Security Update 2007-004 for Mac OS X 10.4.9 Server has introduced a serious issue where logged in client FTP users are able to access files outside of their home directories. It ...

The FBI is warning the healthcare sector to step up security of its file transfer protocol servers as cybercriminals step up attacks targeting FTP servers running in anonymous mode. "The FBI is aware ...

We all use File Transfer Protocol(FTP) to upload data to our web sites. Let us take a quick look at how we can improve its security with some simple steps. 1. Use encryption / SFTP The FTP was not ...

Progress Software, the maker of the MOVEit Transfer file-sharing platform recently exploited in widespread data theft attacks, warned customers to patch a maximum severity vulnerability in its WS_FTP ...

In September 2016, a security expert nicknamed Minxomat reproduced the same research, but despite the passage of nearly two years, the number of exposed anonymous FTP servers has remained at high ...

Ransomware hackers have started exploiting one or more recently fixed vulnerabilities that pose a grave threat to enterprise networks around the world, researchers said. One of the vulnerabilities has ...