Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an effective security measure, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers. The researchers, who plan to present their findings on 14 August at the ...

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 ...

IT professionals are expected to know everything technical, which creates a very high bar, and mistakes can be costly. Increasingly, corporate IT is asked to be more involved with website security ...

Security certificates are used for a range of purposes. Among these include identity verification, file encryption, Web authentication, email security and software signature checking. Every ...

With the evolution of the internet, the solutions for better protection of websites increase -- and so does the creativity of cybercriminals. For several years now, organizations like Google have been ...

An announcement from the Google Chrome Security Team has dropped what can only be described as a security and privacy bombshell for the 3.45 billion users of the Chrome browser. From November 1, the ...

A group of 38 cybersecurity professors and IT experts worldwide, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have cosigned a letter to EU regulators that warns of a proposal that could ...

The number of deployed Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates has increased, with new measures by browsers to promote “secure” websites. Speaking at the DigiCert Security Summit in San Diego, ...

Members of the CA/Browser Forum have voted to slash cert lifespans from the current one year to 47 days, placing an added burden on enterprise IT staff who must ensure they are updated. In a move that ...

A Russian-funded English-language website aimed at sowing divisions among Americans has had a vital internet security certificate yanked, meaning U.S. internet users will have difficulty accessing the ...

Internet Explorer, the Microsoft Windows default Web browser, uses what it calls Authenticode technology to verify the digital security certificates of visited websites, helping guard against viruses ...

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