Let's Encrypt has reached a personal milestone in its quest to better secure the Web with one million free TLS certificates now issued to webmasters who wish to better secure their domains. On Tuesday ...

Photographic equipment maker Eastman Kodak is focusing on protecting the confidentiality of e-mail communications among employees and business partners by using an encryption technology known as ...

For many global enterprises, email remains the main form of formal communication. It's how legal documents are shared, how client relationships are maintained, and how internal teams exchange critical ...

Certificate-based authentication is a cryptographic technique that allows one computer to securely identify itself to another across a network connection, using a document called a public-key ...

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% ...

Quantum computing represents an existential threat to modern cryptographic defenses, particularly for non-human identities—machines, IoT devices, workloads, applications, services and APIs—which rely ...

Editor’s note: This is the 53 rd article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SecurityInfoWatch.com contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology ...

It isn’t just the big boys that are under the gun on the subject of e-mail privacy; today the bull’s-eye is on mid-sized companies. A vice president in Southern Commercial Bank, for example, ...

Email management provider Mimecast said that hackers have compromised a digital certificate it issued and used it to target select customers who use it to encrypt data they sent and received through ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

Let’s Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority (CA) launched as a public service by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), says it will begin providing free “wildcard” certificates for ...