Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said this week it will begin offering wildcard certificates in 2018.

The way Firefox caches intermediate CA certificates could allow for the fingerprinting of users and the leakage of browsing details, a researcher warns.

Google said that more than half of pageloads on Chrome across platforms are encrypted; Android as the lone laggard, but trending upward.

Google announced Monday that it will distrust certificates issued by WoSign and StartCom when in it ships Chrome 56 in January 2017.

Apple said over the weekend it would soon distrust certificates issued by WoSign’s Free SSL Certificate G2 intermediate CA on macOS.

Amazon is getting into the certificate game. The company announced late last week that it launched a certificate manager to expedite the process of securing SSL/TLS certificates for customers looking to add HTTPS to their sites or apps. The move comes less than a year after Amazon applied to Mozilla and the Android Open Source...