Certificate authorities aren’t scrutinizing who gets their SSL certificates, and now a large number of phishing sites have legitimate certificates, said Netcraft, a United Kingdom-based Internet ...

In the wake of Moxie Marlinspike’s SSL talk at Black Hat this summer, another security researcher has used the technique described in the talk to create and publish a valid wildcard certificate and ...

While browsing a website on Google Chrome, if you get an error saying This server could not prove that it is <domain.com>; its security certificate is not from <ABC ...

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A reader reported receiving a message in Google Search Console about a self-signed SSL certificate. Google has been sending warnings about this for years. A self-signed SSL certificate is one that is ...

Certificate authority DigiCert is considering issuing SSL certificates to more Tor .onion address owners after recently providing Facebook with one. However, SSL certificates for pseudo-top-level ...

GitHub’s home page malfunctioned earlier this week, with reports indicating that an expired SSL certificate was to blame. GitHub users reported being unable to access various resources, apparently ...

IT professionals are expected to know everything technical, which creates a very high bar, and mistakes can be costly. Increasingly, corporate IT is asked to be more involved with website security ...

Let's Encrypt can issue SSL certificates free of charge, but because it is valid for 90 days, it contributes to the “metabolism” of certificates. On the other hand, 'ancient certificate' still ...

If you’ve followed the steps we laid out in our initial feature, you’ve got a safe Nginx server all set up and working. It’s serving your static pages without any issue. We don’t yet have a database, ...