Everyone’s freaking out about the Heartbleed vulnerability that’s affecting some of the most popular sites on the web. Heartbleed is a vulnerability in OpenSSL. Confused about what SSL actually is?

Bogus digital certificates have been popping up here and there over time as malware authors rely on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) more and more to sneak past intrusion detection and protection systems ...

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a security protocol that enables encrypted communication between a client and a web server. The websites that implement SSL have HTTPS in their URLs instead ...

Microsoft is scrambling to block a fraudulent HTTPS certificate that was issued for one of the company’s Windows Live Web addresses lest it be used by attackers to mount convincing man-in-the-middle ...

An attacker armed with a fraudulent SSL certificate and an ability to control their victim’s network could impersonate websites in a way that would be undetectable to most users. Such certificates ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. It’s about to get a whole lot easier to deploy encryption ...

Google's Project Zero has found that it was previously trivial to create an SSL certificate collision thanks to Kaspersky using only the first 32 bits of an MD5 hash in its SSL proxy packaged with its ...