Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

What is TLS and How Does It Affect My Customers?

PayPal, like many payment vendors, is “updating its services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections.” Even non-payment vendors such as UPS are making the switchover. What is TLS, does it affect me and my customers,  and who/what is driving this change?     What is TLS? Most of us understand to look for […]

Is PayPal Occasionally Failing because of TLS Testing?

PayPal has announced that they will require the secure communications protocol — TLS 1.2 — by June 2018.  However, they will be periodically testing on live stores starting in March* and continuing until the switch over.  Here’s part of the message they are sending to their merchants: Please note, over the next few months, PayPal will […]

Are my Intermittent UPS problems because of TLS 1.0?

UPS has said that in preparation to their December 31, 2017 upgrade to the secure communication protocol TLS 1.1 that they will be periodically switching off and on TLS 1.0.  This means that programs that do not support TLS 1.1 could have intermittent connectivity problems communicating with UPS servers. Here’s what they have said on […]

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