There's never much you could really trust in computer security, but you could usually put your faith in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) connection being secure. The combination of the Web ...

During the 25th annual Chaos Communication Congress held in Berlin, cryptographers from the U.S., Netherlands and Switzerland demonstrated a way to impersonate the digital credentials of RapidSSL, a ...

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In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, ...

All web communications take place using a standard protocol — the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) — that defines the format of communications between web servers and web browsers. The basic HTTP ...

Websites are now more secure with a new SSL Certificate automation process, implemented by UAB IT’s Infrastructure and Security team. “Certificate authorities are currently limiting these lifespans to ...

The attack on DigiNotar resulted in fraudulent web authentication certificates being issue for hundreds of websites, including google.com. As soon as the DigiNotar hacker made the claim about ...

With the evolution of the internet, the solutions for better protection of websites increase -- and so does the creativity of cybercriminals. For several years now, organizations like Google have been ...

The number of deployed Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates has increased, with new measures by browsers to promote “secure” websites. Speaking at the DigiCert Security Summit in San Diego, ...