A month or so ago, whenever I logged on to my bank to pay bills online, a notice saying that a Certificate Authority had expired popped up. It referred to VeriSign as the issuer of the certificate.

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a catch-all term for everything used to establish and manage public key encryption, one of the most common forms of internet encryption. It is baked into every web ...

Certificates confirm not only that the server is presenting the website you wanted to visit, but also that a certificate authority has confirmed that the company or organization behind the site is ...

There has been much speculation around the identity and motive of the hacker who was able to breach DigiNotar and issue fraudulent digital certificates for hundreds of websites, but putting such ...

Patrick Lambert looks at certificate authority hacks like the most recent DigiNotar exploit and suggests several ways to protect your organization from compromised CAs. Over the last couple of weeks, ...

Whether you create your own code-signing certificate, or use a certificate from a certificate authority, it’s easy to give your Windows binaries the seal of approval. If you compile programs on ...