Digital Certificate Authentication is superior to username/password authentication and significantly simpler to configure and manage than plain public keys while providing additional security benefits ...

Thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices share the same hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) host keys or HTTPS (HTTP Secure) server certificates, a study found. By ...

Having your computer check for certificate revocation on a server tells you if the certificate being used has been revoked by the certificate authority before it was set to expire. Internet Explorer ...

SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by ...

All web communications take place using a standard protocol — the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) — that defines the format of communications between web servers and web browsers. The basic HTTP ...

The goal of the U.S. Department of Defense Public Key Infrastructure (DOD PKI) program is to develop and issue electronic certificates, or identity cards, to users and applications. These certificates ...

Some Wi-Fi networks and virtual private networks require security certificates to connect. Devices that don't have the necessary security certificates are blocked from the network. You can add ...

Hundreds of companies and other entities around the globe, some associated with national governments, occupy a place of power on the Internet that you likely don’t even know exists. Certificate ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs.

Thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices share the same hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) host keys or HTTPS (HTTP Secure) server certificates, a study found. By ...