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 ...

IT professionals are expected to know everything technical, which creates a very high bar, and mistakes can be costly. Increasingly, corporate IT is asked to be more involved with website security ...

A certificate authority (CA) is a trusted entity that issues electronic certificates (duh) to verify identity on the Internet. They're a key part of secure communications online -- and thus super ...

Google will stop recognizing web security certificates issued by China's CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), it has been announced. This comes at a time when China is cracking down on ...

Get ready a credit card and a free Web mail account that is registered as "ssladmin". Go to a certificate authority (CA), such as VeriSign's RapidSSL. Now, register online for a secure Web certificate ...

The Certification Authority Browser Forum has voted to reduce Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates to 47 days by March 2029, in a move that will radically alter existing security ...

GlobalSign has suspended issuing authentication certificates for websites after the DigiNotar hacker claimed to have breached its systems. This comes a week after news broke that Dutch certificate ...

Top SSL Certificates Buyer's Guide If you're looking to start any sort of e-commerce business, then website security should be at the top of your to-do list. The core of website security is still SSL, ...

Security certificates are used for a range of purposes. Among these include identity verification, file encryption, Web authentication, email security and software signature checking. Every ...

The U.S. government shutdown is causing trouble not only in political circles but also in the world of internet security. As the shutdown enters day 22, making it the longest shutdown in the history ...

Two more software makers have been caught adding dangerous, Superfish-style man-in-the-middle code to the applications they publish. The development is significant because it involves AV company ...

A recent discovery of an exploit of the MD5 algorithm used to check the validity of Secure Sockets Layer SSL certificates (The little lock icon on the bottom right of your browser) may put to question ...