Certificate authorities aren’t scrutinizing who gets their SSL certificates, and now a large number of phishing sites have legitimate certificates, said Netcraft, a United Kingdom-based Internet ...

In the wake of Moxie Marlinspike’s SSL talk at Black Hat this summer, another security researcher has used the technique described in the talk to create and publish a valid wildcard certificate and ...

While browsing a website on Google Chrome, if you get an error saying This server could not prove that it is <domain.com>; its security certificate is not from <ABC ...

Most secure sites and pages use Secure Socket Layer certificates to create encrypted links between your browser and the Web server. The SSL certificate isn't ...

If you are a website owner and Google Chrome shows the Not Secure – Your connection to this site is not secure for your website, it can get you in trouble. Google Chrome will show this message to ...

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 ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

An SSL certificate is a digital certificate that is used to verify the identity of a website and to encrypt information sent to and from the site. SSL certificates are issued by certificate ...

This morning, GitHub's pristine layout vanished off of the repository, in what looks like a miss on the company's part in renewing an SSL certificate. Soon, reports emerged all over the internet from ...