It's increasingly common for the data that passes between your browser and a website's server to be encrypted with HTTPS, which makes it impossible for outside snoops to read. But you don't get that ...

Let’s Encrypt has announced that its free security certificates are now trusted by all major browsers, bringing the organization’s mission to offer free HTTPS encryption to all sites one step closer ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

During the past year, Let's Encrypt has issued a total of 15,270 SSL certificates that contained the word "PayPal" in the domain name or the certificate identity. Of these, approximately 14,766 (96.7% ...

Smarter Encryption is essentially a white list of websites that are verified to be secure. A white list is the opposite of a black list. So rather than creating a list of sites to exclude (black list) ...

Encryption has been a pervasive topic as of late, and for good reason. As the web becomes more crucial to our everyday lives, we begin to lose the sense of privacy we would otherwise have. Now ...

They really need some filtering for words like "PayPal" etc in the domain names they issue certificates for however. Still, for the 99% of users, this is great! More encryption, the better. Click to ...

In today’s digital economy, where organizations rely on cloud computing, mobile technologies and data-driven decision making, securing sensitive information has never been more critical. Encryption ...

Amazon is now a certificate authority, or CA, and has launched a new service that issues digital certificates for free to developers. With its new CA, Amazon Trust Services (ATS), the company has now ...

Google Chrome, the most widely used Internet browser, has officially started warning users that unencrypted Web pages are “not secure.” Among those “not secure,” as of Aug. 9: The front pages of the ...

Let's Encrypt will begin revoking certain SSL/TLS certificates issued within the last 90 days due to a bug, starting January 28, 2022. The move could impact millions of active Let's Encrypt ...