The Web standards group is going ahead with its Encrypted Media Extensions technology despite some opposition, arguing it's a step in the right direction. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Turns out that the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption we’ve relied on for secure communication on the Internet has a vulnerability. Today Google researchers announced (PDF link) that they have ...

Nine software fixes were released Wednesday for OpenSSL, a critical encryption component for exchanging data on the web, although none of the problems are as severe as the “Heartbleed” issue found in ...

Mozilla is undertaking a series of steps designed to push the Web toward full encryption under the secure hypertext protocol, which protects user traffic from eavesdroppers. “There’s pretty broad ...

Achieving HTTPS everywhere has been a goal for years now. Spearheaded by Google, security experts agree that it just makes more sense to push all communication as encrypted traffic. To do that, ...

After weaning itself from dependence on Google, the nonprofit plans to expand beyond the Firefox browser. That may clash with Trump administration priorities. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

A new organisation that wants all traffic between websites and browsers to be encrypted will soon give away server certificates and software required by website owners to make their sites secure. A ...

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