There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the firmware. The ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority that issues free SSL/TLS certificates for web servers, was cross-signed by IdenTrust so that it could issue certificates trusted by devices that didn't trust ...

The open CA prepares for ‘worst scenarios’ with new fiber, servers, cryptographic signing and more. Let’s Encrypt just announced an infrastructure makeover which means the open certificate authority ...

Most websites don't display that little lock icon in the URL line. But in a world festering with cyberthreats and online fraud, they probably should. Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit Certificate Authority ...

Trend Micro has detected a malvertising campaign against web users in Japan. It turns out that the ads were using a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt. The ads led to sites which would infect PCs.

Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

Let's Encrypt announced yesterday that they are now directly trusted by all major root certificate programs including those from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. With this ...

Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let’s Encrypt’s transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn’t going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious ...