Securing your business website with HTTPS isn't just a good idea, it's a necessity. Google Chrome now marks HTTP payment and login pages and search pages as insecure if they're not using HTTPS.

Let’s Encrypt, the popular SSL certificate authority, is about to stop sending emails for expiring certificates. If you have a server using Let’s Encrypt, you’ll need to use automations to keep up ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

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.

Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem. Foundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and ...

Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live. Let’s Encrypt, a movement to issue free and automated HTTPS certificates, today hit a major milestone when ...

Let's Encrypt announced yesterday that their ACMEv2 API is now live and with it comes the ability for users to get free wildcard certificates. This has been a long awaited feature as wildcard domain ...

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which operates Let's Encrypt, announced in its 2024 annual report that it would be able to issue certificates with a validity period of six days in 2025.