Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

With the evolution of the internet, the solutions for better protection of websites increase -- and so does the creativity of cybercriminals. For several years now, organizations like Google have been ...

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 ...

Google has announced that going HTTPS — adding a SSL 2048-bit key certificate on your site — will give you a minor ranking boost. Google says this gives websites a small ranking benefit, only counting ...

The Internet has become the number one resources for news, information, events, and all things social. As most people know there are many ways to create a website of your own and capture your own ...

The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029. The CA/Browser Forum is a ...

A reader reported receiving a message in Google Search Console about a self-signed SSL certificate. Google has been sending warnings about this for years. A self-signed SSL certificate is one that is ...

A decision that Apple unilaterally took in February 2020 has reverberated across the browser landscape and has effectively strong-armed the Certificate Authority industry into bitterly accepting a new ...

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a security protocol that enables encrypted communication between a client and a web server. The websites that implement SSL have HTTPS in their URLs instead ...