TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking — first to 200 days, then to just 47. That means more frequent renewals, higher risk ...

Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates are the cornerstone of online security. In basic terms, ...

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 ...

Guest Opinion: For many organisations, learning the differences between code signing certificates and TLS/SSL certificates can be overwhelming. While overwhelming, however, it’s essential ...

Firesheep can certainly be mis-used as a hacking tool. It was meant, however, to serve up as a wake-up call to everyone that Web site managers were doing a lousy job of securing their Web sites. How ...

If you’ve followed the steps we laid out in our initial feature, you’ve got a safe Nginx server all set up and working. It’s serving your static pages without any issue. We don’t yet have a database, ...

Microsoft has issued a security advisory about an exploit that can decrypt SSL and TLS Web traffic. While actual attacks are considered improbable, a security patch to protect Microsoft software is ...

Twitter has begun enforcing HTTPS connections between applications and its API. UPDATE: As of yesterday, Twitter’s application programming interface (API) will only recognize traffic traveling via ...

The ‘CRIME’ attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure ...