Hosted.com expands its SSL certificate offerings, providing simplified encryption solutions to help improve website ...

Lava lamps aren't just psychedelic decor. One major internet company uses them to help generate the randomness behind secure encryption keys.

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 ...

It's increasingly common for the data that passes between your browser and a website's server to be encrypted with HTTPS, which makes it impossible for outside snoops to read. But you don't get that ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

Smarter Encryption is essentially a white list of websites that are verified to be secure. A white list is the opposite of a black list. So rather than creating a list of sites to exclude (black list) ...

After Edward Snowden revealed that online communications were being collected en masse by some of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, security experts called for encryption of the entire ...

The latest example has to do with encryption. When we bank or shop online, a robust form of encryption protects our data from being intercepted. It is called HTTPS, for Hypertext Transfer Protocol ...

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is an industry-standard method for secure communications on the internet. SSL -- along with its successor, transport layer security (TLS) -- is the commonly accepted ...