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 ...

Hackers are increasingly benefiting from poorly managed encryption technologies deployed by organizations, according to a new report from application networking and security firm A10 Networks in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...

Security news has officially gone to the dogs. Well, at least, it has gone to the POODLE, this week’s variation of our regularly scheduled scary security vulnerability. This particular vulnerability ...

When you browse the Internet, you leave traces. When SSL encryption is activated, which is indicated in your browser’s URL bar by a Web address that starts with “https” and a lock icon, your browsing ...

Websites and companies that rely on OpenSSL should patch their systems as soon as possible. The developer of Open SSL, a widely used open-source encryption library, released Tuesday a patch to fix two ...

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 ...

Yahoo will encrypt Web-based email by default for all of its users beginning Jan. 8, the company has told The Washington Post. "Yahoo takes the security of our users very seriously," the company said ...