The holder of the 1.1.1.1 certificates could potentially use them in active adversary-in-the-middle attacks that intercept communications passing between end users and the Cloudflare DNS service, Ryan ...

A new study offers the first end-to-end evaluation of the Web's certificate revocation ecosystem, which includes website administrators that obtain and revoke certificates, certificate authorities ...

Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...

Google will stop recognizing web security certificates issued by China's CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), it has been announced. This comes at a time when China is cracking down on ...

Let's Encrypt is scheduled to releases its first security certificates on September 7, 2015. The service will become generally available on November 16. Josh Aas, the Internet Security Research ...

A certificate authority (CA) is a trusted entity that issues electronic certificates (duh) to verify identity on the Internet. They're a key part of secure communications online -- and thus super ...

Congress is losing sleep over the possibility other nations could endanger web security, and now it wants the four major browser makers to weigh in. The House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy ...

GlobalSign has suspended issuing authentication certificates for websites after the DigiNotar hacker claimed to have breached its systems. This comes a week after news broke that Dutch certificate ...

The increase in Internet fraud has fueled a response from the Internet security community to help combat that fraud. One of those responses is the use of digital certificates, also called SSL ...

You visit a client or other website and, instead of the site itself, you encounter a security certificate error. If you are using Windows and Internet Explorer, the ...

Hundreds of companies and other entities around the globe, some associated with national governments, occupy a place of power on the Internet that you likely don’t even know exists. Certificate ...