A reader reported receiving a message in Google Search Console about a self-signed SSL certificate. Google has been sending warnings about this for years. A self-signed SSL certificate is one that is ...

Self-signed SSL certificates are a handy tool to have at your fingertips, but using them for the wrong purpose could be a big mistake. Here’s when they make sense and when they don’t. An SSL ...

Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third-party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce “trusted” ...

It seems that with every passing week we discover new ways that digital encryption and security is being subverted by government agencies domestic and abroad. It stands to reason that encryption can ...

Dozens of self-signed SSL certificates created to impersonate banking, e-commerce and social networking websites have been found on the Web. The certificates don’t pose a big threat to browser users, ...

The certificates could be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks against desktop and mobile apps with poor certificate validation Dozens of self-signed SSL certificates created to impersonate ...

If you have a website that handles confidential or private information, it's wise to protect that site using Secure Sockets Layer technology. You can do this by adding an SSL certificate to your ...

I'm curious what people are doing for SSL certificates on their own internal sites. We have a small PKI setup, mostly to issue certificates to users for VPN, but we also just started issues our own ...