Mozilla is undertaking a series of steps designed to push the Web toward full encryption under the secure hypertext protocol, which protects user traffic from eavesdroppers. “There’s pretty broad ...

The security community generally agrees on the importance of encrypting private data: Add a passcode to your smartphone. Use a secure messaging app like Signal. Adopt HTTPS web encryption. But a new ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

For years, Secure Sockets Layer encryption methods have been fundamental to Web security. Recent attacks have called into question whether SSL and the follow-on protocol, Transport Layer Security, are ...

RUST, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Hosting Days - Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the worldwide availability of Encryption Everywhere, a website ...

Nearly half of federal websites missed a deadline last week to adopt a suite of security improvements, including adding an advanced encryption certificate, according to a government tally. The ...

The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...

Let’s Encrypt issued its one billionth digital certificate a few weeks ago. Run by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the service provides these certificates to websites for free, ...

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Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...

Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Messages ...