It's increasingly common for the data that passes between your browser and a website's server to be encrypted with HTTPS, which makes it impossible for outside snoops to read. But you don't get that ...

After Edward Snowden revealed that online communications were being collected en masse by some of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, security experts called for encryption of the entire ...

Starting in July 2018, Google will release a new version of its popular Chrome web browser that will mark web pages that lack HTTPS encryption as “not secure” in an effort to help protect users from ...

Does the padlock icon on our web browsers still mean anything, or have certificate authorities turned HTTPS encryption into a joke? iStock If you know anything about internet security, then you ...

Sending data in plain text just doesn’t cut it in an age of abundant hack attacks and mass metadata collection. Some of the biggest names on the Web—Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.—have already ...

Google engineers are concerned that the advanced cryptography capabilities of future quantum computers will make it laughably easy to break even the most secure encryption available today. So they're ...

Google has said starting later this year its Chrome browser will mark all websites that haven't adopted HTTPS encryption as "not secure." That means any site that doesn't load with a green padlock or ...

Pornhub is now using HTTPS encryption by default, and its sister site, YouPorn, will do the same starting on April 4. REUTERS/Mal Langsdon Pornhub, one of the most popular adult entertainment websites ...

The problem with encrypted data is that you must decrypt it in order to work with it. By doing so, it’s vulnerable to the very things you were trying to protect it from by encrypting it. There is a ...