For years, Secure Sockets Layer encryption methods have been fundamental to Web security. Recent attacks have called into question whether SSL and the follow-on protocol, Transport Layer Security, are ...

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 Electronic Frontier Foundation has teamed up with Akamai, Cisco, Identrust, Mozilla and a team at the University of Michigan to create Let’s Encrypt, a new initiative designed to encourage ...

A new computer chip will help tackle one of the Web’s weak spots—the fact that most data is exchanged without any protection against hackers or eavesdroppers. For some communications, such as credit ...

The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...

Everyone talks about security on infrastructure, but it comes at a heavy cost. While datacenters have been securing their perimeters with firewalls for decades, this is far from sufficient for modern ...

The push for web encryption, or HTTPS, is a crucial, attainable step in improving the Internet's privacy and security. And ideally, we'd encrypt the entire web, as some organizations are trying to do.

A vastly larger percentage of the world’s Web traffic will be encrypted under a near-final recommendation to revise the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that serves as the foundation for all ...