- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 11th, 2015
Google Has Enough of Symantec's Dodgy SSL Certificates, Bans Them from Chrome, Android UPDATE
Symantec didn't really care in September, doesn't care now
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 9th, 2015
Facebook, Cloudflare Want to Continue Using SHA-1 Certificates in Older Browsers
Facebook and Cloudflare want an SHA-1 fallback system
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 9th, 2015
Microsoft Takes Countermeasures After Xbox Live SSL Certificate Blunder
Private key for Xbox Live domain leaks online
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 7th, 2015
Prevent Certificate Blunders with the Certificate Expiry Monitor
Get notified whenever an SSL/TLS certificate expires, and avoid being ridiculed by your sysadmin friends
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 3rd, 2015
Let's Encrypt Enters Public Beta, Get Your Free Certs Right Now
Project nears its final goal, enters public availability
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 1st, 2015
Patent Troll Sues Big Companies over HTTPS
Big brands are asked to pay royalties for usage of HTTPS
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 26th, 2015
Reuse of Encryption Keys Plagues 9 Percent of All HTTPS Hosts on the Internet
New survey shows industry-wide bad practices when it comes to encryption, firmware design, and IoT security
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 28th, 2015
US Military Still Employing Obsolete SHA-1 Certificates for Its Websites
Besides SHA1, some websites use the archaic TLS 1.0 protocol
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 17th, 2015
Encryption Flaw Allows the NSA to Break HTTPS and VPN Traffic
A theory that fits all the other clues more than others
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 7th, 2015
Zero-Day Exploit Found in Avast Antivirus
Avast was vulnerable to malicious HTTPS connections
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 3rd, 2015
Google Adds HTTPS Support for Blogger, Here's How to Enable It
Political bloggers should be the happiest users
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 25th, 2015
Browser Vendors Implemented Cookies the Wrong Way, Exposed Users to MitM Attacks
Updating to the most recent browser versions is a must
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 30th, 2015
Washington Post Switches to HTTPS
Modern crypto is applied to the connection
- General Business
- By Bogdan Popa
- June 18th, 2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation Applauds Microsoft’s Decision to Encrypt Bing Traffic
Bing will switch to HTTPS for search engine results
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 17th, 2015
Free-of-Charge SSL/TLS Certificates to Be Available Next Month
Let's Encrypt project gets closer to its launch date
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 13th, 2015
Wikipedia Moves to HTTPS to Deter Government Surveillance
All Wikimedia Foundation sites will use HTTPS from now on
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 9th, 2015
US Federal Websites and Services to Ensure HTTPS Protection by the End of 2016
Adopting the new standard presents significant challenges