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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Computer security experts said they’ve found a new encryption flaw closely related to one found earlier this year that puts Web surfers’ data at risk. The flaw, called LogJam, can allow an attacker to ...

The Linux Foundation is lending support to the Let's Encrypt project, to make it both free and simple for any Web server to encrypt connections After ramping up efforts to fund auditing and full-time ...

Another week, another dire warning about the technology used to secure online communications. Internet security researchers are warning about a previously undisclosed vulnerability that affected all ...

Google on Tuesday revealed yet another Internet-wide security vulnerability with a cute name but potentially disastrous effects. POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) allows ...