YAHOO! Now Encrypts Everything; Encrypted Yahoo Messenger Coming Soon

ON HIGH-PRIORITY YAHOO! is finally rolling out encryption implementation over their site and services in order to protect users. Yahoo is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive supporters of encryption, as in January this year Yahoo enabled the HTTPS connections by default, that automaticall...

Fixing Trust Through Certificate Transparency

SAN FRANCISCO–The security of data being transmitted over the Web relies on a large number of moving parts, from the integrity of the machine sending the data, to the security of the browser, to the implementation of encryption, to the fragility of the certificate authority system. Experts have...

French Government Impersonates Google Digital Certificate

Google last week revoked digital certificates for some of its domains that had been fraudulently signed by an intermediate certificate authority with links to France’s cyber-defense agency. The Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information ANSSI claims that the spoofed Google...

GlobalSign Commits to Certificate Transparency Framework

If you were going to try and determine who has had a worse go of it recently, the NSA or certificate authorities, you’d likely have to just flip a coin. And the coin would probably end up balanced on its edge. While the National Security Agency is scrambling to respond to and recover from the...