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% ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Ever since Edward Snowden’s ...

Hosted.com expands its SSL certificate offerings, providing simplified encryption solutions to help improve website ...

Let’s Encrypt announced that a bug affecting over 3 million websites using their Let’s Encrypt security certificate. Let’s Encrypt is revoking over 3 million affected certificates on March 4, 2020.

For the first time, more than half of traffic on the Internet is encrypted, and experts say free SSL certificate providers are playing a big role. If recent telemetry from Mozilla is indeed ...

At the start of 2020, there are some technologies – originally developed only with the very best of intentions – that seem to have a darker side, challenging us to come up with new ways to harness and ...

The Let’s Encrypt initiative today announced that it is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. The Linux Foundation is well-known as the home of Linux development, but it has also expanded ...

There’s an important caveat about encrypted traffic from new research released this week: Encryption works so well that hackers are using it as cover. A new study from A10 and the Ponemon Institute ...

Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over ...

In the wake of revelations about the National Security Agency’s monitoring of traffic on the private international fiber links connecting the data centers of Google and Yahoo, Google stepped up its ...