A consortium called the Internet Security Research Group, founded by Mozilla, Akamai, Cisco, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan, have ...

Let’s Encrypt, the popular SSL certificate authority, is about to stop sending emails for expiring certificates. If you have a server using Let’s Encrypt, you’ll need to use automations to keep up ...

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This is a story about something that could have gone wrong on the internet this week but instead turned out mostly OK. How often can you say that? Around 9 o’clock on the East Coast on Friday, ...

Let’s Encrypt has announced that it will have to revoke many Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificates from March 4. It’s currently in the process of emailing affected subscribers so that they can update ...

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 has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...