The padlock on a browser’s address bar is supposed to give Net travelers some security in insecure virtual space, but that’s not always the case. Some dangerous flaws lurk behind the padlock. They can ...

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Google is making its Certificate Transparency initiative mandatory for website certs issued from October 2017, in a bid to further improve stability and security on the internet. In a note online this ...

Knowing when an SSL/TLS certificate has been issued for a given domain is helpful in giving organizations insight into any potentially mis-issued security certificates. On December 13, Facebook ...

Trust on the internet is derived from Certificate Authorities that issue digital certificates to verify that users are actually visiting legitimate sites. Over the years, Google and other browsers ...

Facebook has launched a tool that allows domain name owners to discover TLS/SSL certificates that were issued without their knowledge. The tool uses data collected from the many Certificate ...

Perhaps the most important thing to understand about the SSL/TLS/HTTPS system that secures websites is that you are not supposed to understand it. I say this as a follow-up to my last blog, which ...