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How to disable TLS 1.0 on Apache or nginx

If your webserver is running Transport Layer Security (TLS) Version 1.0 on port 443, Cloud Cultivator will detect it. TLS 1.0 has several flaws. An attacker can cause connection failures which they can trigger the use of TLS 1.0 to exploit vulnerabilities like BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS). As such, attackers can perform man-in-the-middle attacks and observe the encrypted traffic between the website and its visitors. This allows an attacker who has set up a ‘man-in-the-middle’ server to theoretically recover data that would normally be encrypted. The most likely attack…Continue readingHow to disable TLS 1.0 on Apache or nginx