Let’s Encrypt certificates can now stand on their own for almost all newer versions of operating systems, browsers and devices.

Any Chrome user visiting an HTTP website will see an impossible-not-to-notice warning label that the site is “not secure.”

Scott Helme, the well-known security researcher, international speaker and the founder of the securityheaders.com and report-uri.com free tools for web security, has devoted himself to improving the security environment of the internet for the past decade. Threatpost sat down with Helme to discuss the state of web security, particularly on the encryption front — including certificate...

Leading certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is facing criticism that its rapid growth and eagerness to encrypt internet communications is happening at a cost.

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

Phishing sites are deploying freely available TLS certificates in order to dupe victims into thinking they’re visiting a safe site.

Starting with Chrome 62, Google will start marking any HTTP page where users may enter data, and any HTTP page visited in incognito mode

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Microsoft SMB zero day, the latest Netgear router vulnerability, and a new HTTPS milestone.

This week HTTPS hit a huge milestone. According to a two-week survey of telemetry data from the Mozilla Firefox browser, 50 percent of page loads used HTTPS.

Mozilla released its first Internet Health Report, examining the dangers of over-sharing eroding privacy, and the security of connected devices.