Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third-party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce “trusted” ...

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 ...

Dozens of self-signed SSL certificates created to impersonate banking, e-commerce and social networking websites have been found on the Web. The certificates don’t pose a big threat to browser users, ...

A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to ...

When are self-signed certificates acceptable for businesses? Your email has been sent Self-signed SSL certificates are a handy tool to have at your fingertips, but using them for the wrong purpose ...

GlobalSign suspended sales of its SSL certificates after ComodoHacker, the hacker who compromised DigiNotar in June, claimed last week to compromise four other CAs, including GlobalSign. CAs such as ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. In a time when digital frauds and ...

Here is a list of the best free online SSL certificate checker tools that let you check and verify the SSL certificate on a web server. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer which is basically an ...

Rekindling concerns about the system millions of websites use to encrypt and authenticate sensitive data, Google caught a French governmental agency spoofing digital certificates for several Google ...

Vincent Danen shows you how to add a Certificate Authority's root certificate on an OS X system, allowing any OS X service that uses SSL and the OS X keychain to trust any certificates issued by the ...