Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an effective security measure, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers. The researchers, who plan to present their findings on 14 August at the ...

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 ...

There's never much you could really trust in computer security, but you could usually put your faith in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) connection being secure. The combination of the Web ...

A new study offers the first end-to-end evaluation of the Web's certificate revocation ecosystem, which includes website administrators that obtain and revoke certificates, certificate authorities ...

Last week, at the 49th CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary consortium of certification authorities, Apple announced that it’ll stop allowing HTTPS certificates on Safari with more than 13 months of validity ...

In parallel with its efforts to double down on high-growth areas such as endpoint security, Symantec Corp. has been working to scale back traditional businesses with more limited prospects. A new ...

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 ...