Using a vulnerability in the SSL 3.0, attackers can inject malicious code into your computer and compromise it. They can also compromise web hosting servers using the same SSL 3.0. Most browsers still ...

SSL/TLS certificates are used to authenticate the ownership of websites and other online resources, as well as to encrypt information for privacy as it crosses the internet and other networks. The ...

Amazon's Silk internet browser contained a serious bug which not only ignored SSL security standards in Google searches but prevented redirection to the secure version of the search engine. The Google ...

Two security researchers are set to show how, due to a common browser vulnerability, extended-validation SSL certifications don't offer much more protection than traditional certs. A pair of ...

Google and the University of Pennsylvania performed a study intended to determine the effect of best practices on the efficacy of SSL browser warnings. Many users do not understand, let-alone listen ...

DALLAS, Sept. 3, 2014 - Entrust today announced that they have re-joined the CA/Browser Forum, a leading group of certification authorities and browser software vendors. The group, which Entrust ...

Mozilla, Microsoft and other browser makers are turning off support for a decades-old encryption protocol following an advisory from Google warning that the protocol is vulnerable to a dangerous ...

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While opening a website in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, if you see an additional parameter called ?gws_rd=ssl in the URL and an error related to the SSL ...

“The big takeaway is that computer security warnings are not an effective way of addressing computer security,” study researcher and co-author Lorrie Faith Cranor, an associate professor of computer ...