A high-severity bug in OpenSSL was disclosed today, and it affects only organizations that installed an update released in June, and allows anyone with an untrusted TLS certificate to become a CA.

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library project came ...

Most secure sites and pages use Secure Socket Layer certificates to create encrypted links between your browser and the Web server. The SSL certificate isn't ...

SSL announced that it has become the first publicly trusted certificate authority to launch production-ready C2PA-conformant certificates, marking a significant milestone in the fight against ...

I'm trying to generate a certificate (using the openssl command line tool) that can't actually DO anything - can't sign, can't encrypt. Is this possible? It seems like the purpose of the certificate ...

A reader reported receiving a message in Google Search Console about a self-signed SSL certificate. Google has been sending warnings about this for years. A self-signed SSL certificate is one that is ...

Here is a list of the best free online SSL certificate checker tools that let you check and verify the SSL certificate on a web server. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer which is basically an ...

With the evolution of the internet, the solutions for better protection of websites increase -- and so does the creativity of cybercriminals. For several years now, organizations like Google have been ...