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 ...

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 ...

Every year or so, someone reports a supposed security vulnerability in a site that I run, warning me that the certificate has expired. I always respond that I would be happy to update it when I get a ...

All web communications take place using a standard protocol — the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) — that defines the format of communications between web servers and web browsers. The basic HTTP ...

Web users commonly encounter security certificates only when they get a notice that a website they intend to visit has an expired certificate. Behind the scenes, dozen of Certificate Authorities (CA) ...

Comodo's revelation yesterday that nine SSL certificates had been issued for fraudulent websites posing as domains for high-profile sites serves as a wake-up call for a certificate process that ...

Google Chrome has recently moved the information about Security Certificates to a different location, and unlike before, the location is not convenient at all. In fact, most users might struggle to ...

Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to ...