Think of the website certificate as a way to authenticate the owner of a website A warning does not necessarily mean something nefarious is in play, but you should still be cautious If you’re not sure ...

Users around the world have had trouble accessing some HTTPS websites due to an error at GlobalSign, one of the world’s largest certificate authorities. As part of ...

Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to ...

The partial US government shutdown is now affecting TLS certificates for some government websites. The websites of key branches of government like the Justice Department and the Court of Appeals are ...

Cybercriminals are distributing malware using fake security certificate update requests displayed on previously compromised websites, attempting to infect potential victims with backdoors and Trojans ...

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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 ...

New research from Venafi Labs shows that 21% of the world’s websites are still using certificates signed with the vulnerable Secure Hash Algorithm, SHA-1. On February 23, 2017, Google affiliated ...

All web communications take place using a standard protocol — the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) — that defines the format of communications between web servers and web browsers. The basic HTTP ...