One of the largest providers of HTTPS certificates, Let’s Encrypt, saw its root certificate expire this week — meaning you might need to upgrade your devices to prevent them from breaking. Let's ...

Everyone's pro-encryption these days, unless they're part of the surveillance state. But cryptography is hard, and good cryptography tends to be both hard and expensive. As a result, only a small ...

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 ...

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On Wednesday millions of Transport Layer Security certificates will be revoked because of a Certificate Authority Authorization bug. Popular free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said it will ...

During the past year, Let's Encrypt has issued a total of 15,270 SSL certificates that contained the word "PayPal" in the domain name or the certificate identity. Of these, approximately 14,766 (96.7% ...

Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live. Let’s Encrypt, a movement to issue free and automated HTTPS certificates, today hit a major milestone when ...

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 ...

Let's Encrypt is scheduled to releases its first security certificates on September 7, 2015. The service will become generally available on November 16. Josh Aas, the Internet Security Research ...