Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an effective security measure, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers. The researchers, who plan to present their findings on 14 August at the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

An announcement from the Google Chrome Security Team has dropped what can only be described as a security and privacy bombshell for the 3.45 billion users of the Chrome browser. From November 1, the ...

A group of 38 cybersecurity professors and IT experts worldwide, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have cosigned a letter to EU regulators that warns of a proposal that could ...

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

The number of deployed Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates has increased, with new measures by browsers to promote “secure” websites. Speaking at the DigiCert Security Summit in San Diego, ...

A move to drastically reduce the lifespan of SSL certificates, pushed primarily by Apple and Google, likely won’t make the internet safer — but will force IT to accept more automation. Some have ...