Ticket scammers target Taylor Swift tour

Taylor Swift fans are being warned to be cautious when buying tickets for her current "Eras" tour, with scammers waiting in the wings to trick would-be gig goers. The Better Business Bureau says it has received somewhere in the region of 200 complaints from residents of Michigan, and theres bound...

More than 1 Million Websites Install Free SSL Certificate (and Counting...)

Let's Encrypt has achieved another big milestone by issuing 1 million free Transport Layer Security TLS SSL Certificates to webmasters who wish to secure the communications between their users and domains. Let's Encrypt – operated by the Internet Security Research Group ISRG – is an absolutely...

Certificate revocation service failure may cause Opera to show an unverified site as secure

When accessing secure websites, Opera checks with a number of services to check if the website's security certificate has been revoked. Normally, if Opera cannot check revocation status, it will not present the site as secure. In some cases, a failure in one of these services can cause Opera not ...

Essential Tips to Prevent Cybercrime and Protect Your Personal Information

When Ben Franklin famously wrote, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," he wasn't thinking about cybercrime. Yet, in today's world of phishing, shoulder-surfing, and spyware, his advice is more relevant than ever. Unfortunately, some people will take advantage of any opportunity to r...

CVE-2008-0050

CFNetwork in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows remote HTTPS proxy servers to spoof secure websites via data in a 502 Bad Gateway error...