Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Nearly half of federal websites missed a deadline last week to adopt a suite of security improvements, including adding an advanced encryption certificate, according to a government tally. The ...

A HowToGeek writer switched from Cloudflare’s popular 1.1.1.1 DNS to NextDNS, gaining detailed visibility into all network requests and uncovering unexpected background activity from devices. Unlike ...

SSL and TLS are similar technologies because they share a codebase, though one is better than the other. In fact, one is dead and the other still reigns supreme to the time this day. By end of this ...

Encryption is the default for online communication, with nearly all web traffic protected by secure protocols like TLS/SSL. Yet, as encryption becomes more ubiquitous by the day, so do the ...

A new approach to chip design from network security processor maker NetOctave (Morrisville, NC) promises to boost secure-sockets-layer (SSL) performance while retaining the industry's existing ...

The White House is planning to mandate that all agency websites use HTTPS encryption to protect citizens from online eavesdroppers. While the "HTTPS-Only Standard" makeover likely won’t happen ...

Microsoft will sharpen Bing’s security when it starts encrypting all of its search traffic by default this summer. Bing has offered HTTPS encryption for the past year and a half as an opt-in feature, ...

The big picture: Chrome is by far the most popular browser across various platforms and device types, with a market share of over 66 percent. Needless to say, every change Google makes to its ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let's Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The Let’s Encrypt project was founded in 2013 to provide ...