Let's Encrypt Celebrates Big HTTPS Milestone

Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is celebrating a major milestone in the young nonprofit’s existence issuing its 5 millionth certificate this month. Let’s Encrypt launched to the general public just seven months ago. “Our goal is to get the entire web 100 percent HTTPS,” said Josh Aas, executi...

Vulnerability Forces Mozilla to Disable Opportunistic Encryption in Firefox

Less than a week after introducing the new opportunistic encryption feature in Firefox, Mozilla has had to disable it because of a security vulnerability in the browser’s implementation of the HTTP Alternative Services specification. The bug puts a kink in the new feature, which was designed to...

WordPress to Deploy SSL on All its Sites by End of 2014

The movement by technology companies to encrypt their respective corners of the Internet continues to gain steam as more and more are enabling SSL and other encryption technologies such as Perfect Forward Secrecy to ward off surveillance and enhance the privacy and security of user data. WordPres...