One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...

It’s widely accepted that file transfer protocol (FTP) is the simplest way for organizations to send data across the Internet. To enhance security, many companies now use sFTP or FTP/S, the “secure” ...

Following years of criticism and user requests, the FileZilla FTP client is finally adding support for a master password that will act as a key for storing FTP login credentials in an encrypted format ...

A developer that had his sites hacked because the FileZilla FTP client stores passwords on disk in cleartext has taken things into his own hands and has put together FileZilla Secure, a FileZilla ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...

I'm in the process of migrating an FTP server running vsftpd 2.0.5 on Solaris 10 x86 to vsftpd 2.2.2 on CentOS 6.4 x86_64. Part of the reason for migration is the allowance of FTP over SSL. # TLS ...