Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an effective security measure, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers. The researchers, who plan to present their findings on 14 August at the ...

Cybercriminals are distributing malware using fake security certificate update requests displayed on previously compromised websites, attempting to infect potential ...

Backdoor and Trojan malware variants are being distributed through a new phishing technique that attempts to lure victims into accepting an "update" to website security certificates. Certificate ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Q: What do I do when I get this message: “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate?” We’ve all been taught to look for https: (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) at the beginning ...

Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to ...

You visit a client or other website and, instead of the site itself, you encounter a security certificate error. If you are using Windows and Internet Explorer, the ...

A recent discovery of an exploit of the MD5 algorithm used to check the validity of Secure Sockets Layer SSL certificates (The little lock icon on the bottom right of your browser) may put to question ...

Google Chrome has recently moved the information about Security Certificates to a different location, and unlike before, the location is not convenient at all. In fact, most users might struggle to ...

Congress is losing sleep over the possibility other nations could endanger web security, and now it wants the four major browser makers to weigh in. The House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy ...