Lunarpages FTP/TLS Fiasco and Conclusion
Introduction
Lunarpages is one of the largest web hosting companies in the U.S. The hosting company claims that there are more than 100,000 websites hosted by Lunarpages.
Lunarpages lets the users of Basic Hosting and Business Hosting plans access the FTP server through Transport Layer Security (TLS). It’s an unauthenticated root certificate. But it’s way more secure than the ordinary file transfer protocol (FTP), through which FTP client sends login information in a simple form without encryption on either side. (more…)
