Google, the most widely used Web browser in the world, thinks a majority of state and local government websites aren’t doing enough to protect the people visiting them. And starting in July, that ...

The Web standards group is going ahead with its Encrypted Media Extensions technology despite some opposition, arguing it's a step in the right direction. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The security community generally agrees on the importance of encrypting private data: Add a passcode to your smartphone. Use a secure messaging app like Signal. Adopt HTTPS web encryption. But a new ...

Mozilla is undertaking a series of steps designed to push the Web toward full encryption under the secure hypertext protocol, which protects user traffic from eavesdroppers. “There’s pretty broad ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

When Facebook opened its Internet.org platform to developers back in May, it came with a big caveat: every service running on the platform had to transmit its data in the clear, without encryption.

For years, Secure Sockets Layer encryption methods have been fundamental to Web security. Recent attacks have called into question whether SSL and the follow-on protocol, Transport Layer Security, are ...

RUST, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Hosting Days - Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the worldwide availability of Encryption Everywhere, a website ...

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 ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

Web encryption has yet again showed to be widely flawed, with the latest vulnerability, DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption), affecting 33 per cent of all HTTPS websites ...

Achieving HTTPS everywhere has been a goal for years now. Spearheaded by Google, security experts agree that it just makes more sense to push all communication as encrypted traffic. To do that, ...