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 ...

If you’ve encountered errors over the past month when trying to access HTTPS-enabled websites on your computer or Android phone, it might have been due to a bug in Chrome. The bug affected the ...

Self-signed SSL certificates are a handy tool to have at your fingertips, but using them for the wrong purpose could be a big mistake. Here’s when they make sense and when they don’t. An SSL ...

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 ...

Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third-party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce “trusted” ...

Comodo, of Jersey City, New Jersey, said, in a statement on its Web page, that an attacker was able to obtain the user name and password of a Comodo Registration Authority (RA) based in Southern ...

Website owners take notice: In weeks, Mozilla products including its popular Firefox browser will stop trusting an unknown number of SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates ...

Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the ...