Everyone’s freaking out about the Heartbleed vulnerability that’s affecting some of the most popular sites on the web. Heartbleed is a vulnerability in OpenSSL. Confused about what SSL actually is?

SSL and TLS are similar technologies because they share a codebase, though one is better than the other. In fact, one is dead and the other still reigns supreme to the time this day. By end of this ...

A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...

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 ...

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SSL is essential nowadays because web browsers display warnings when it’s not available on a website. This applies to local sites, such as websites hosted on your computer for testing purposes. Buying ...