Does your site collect sensitive visitor information such as passwords, credit card information, or personal data? If so, be warned: by the end of January 2017, Google Chrome will begin marking sites ...

The new feature, the "Decentralized SSL Observatory" is optional. It's designed to detect encryption weaknesses and notifies users when they are visiting a website with a security vulnerability. This ...

Computer scientists have uncovered direct evidence that a small but significant percentage of encrypted Web connections are established using forged digital certificates that aren’t authorized by the ...

Nearly two years ago, Google made a pledge: It would name and shame websites with unencrypted connections, a strategy designed to spur web developers to embrace HTTPS encryption. On Tuesday, it ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You may have heard people urging you to switch your website to the HTTPS security encryption. They cite Google’s announcement that HTTPS ...

Moz reports the number of HTTPS results on Google’s first page has risen from 30% to 50% over a period of 9 months. Due to the fact this has been a gradual increase with no big jumps, Moz attributes ...

For all the attention that the iPhone’s encrypted storage and Whatsapp’s new end-to-end messaging encryption have gotten over the last few months---particularly from the US Justice Department---you'd ...

Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were ...

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