Researchers have found a cheaper, faster way to process SSL/TLS with off-the-shelf hardware, a development that could let more Web sites shut down cyber threats posed by the likes of the Firesheep ...

Certificate authorities aren’t scrutinizing who gets their SSL certificates, and now a large number of phishing sites have legitimate certificates, said Netcraft, a United Kingdom-based Internet ...

The internet's most visited sites continue to rely on GeoTrust, Inc., according to the latest "Alexa Netcraft Index," a monthly measure of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate used around the world.

You want to put your credit card number into a web site. You know to look for a secure web site. But what does that really prove? And now that so many electronic projects have Web servers (ok, I’ll ...