Thanks to Google and Facebook, awareness of Transport Layer Security (TLS), formerly known a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology, is now fairly high. In fact, adoption of TLS/SSL is so ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...