A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...

Any version of a widely installed security library has been found to be vulnerable to specially crafted certificates that would allow a man-in-the-middle attack against applications using GnuTLS.

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The majority of certificate outages don’t begin with a breach alert. They are silent at first. One day, a browser warning ...

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 ...

It appears that some webmasters are now receiving warnings from Google Webmaster Tools about SSL certificate issues. A Google Webmaster Help thread has a couple people reporting receiving the warnings ...

So, when i use IE to connect via https to squirrelmail, the certifcate issued comes from ssl.localhost and designated for ssl.localhost. IE complains, and for good reason. Where do i place my hostname ...

In order to prevent future errors caused by the SSL scanning feature of many antivirus programs, Mozilla is performing a test that imports the Windows root certificates into Firefox. When browsing the ...

Here is a list of the best free online SSL certificate checker tools that let you check and verify the SSL certificate on a web server. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer which is basically an ...

A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...