Install an SSL certificate Secure Socket Layer or SSL creates an encrypted link between a server and a web browser, securing data exchange between the website and its visitors.

Called the Firefox Private Network, the service promises Firefox users a more secure, encrypted path to the web that prevents eavesdroppers from spying on your browsing activity and hides your ...

The Internet Security Research Group and its Let's Encrypt project -- a free, automated and open security certificate authority -- wants to make the Internet securer than it is today.

By making encryption free and easy, Let's Encrypt solved one of the web’s biggest problems. Its secret? A maniacal focus on automation and efficiency.

Let's Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate In less than five years, Let's Encrypt has secured almost 200 million websites with free TLS certificates.

VIDEO: Josh Aas, executive director of the Internet Security Research Group, discusses the mission of Let's Encrypt and the technology that enables it.

WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for all communication, but it also offers encryption for data backups on Android and iPhone as well - just not by default.

The fractured Android ecosystem has a lot to answer for, and in 2021 that could include some 220 million websites throwing up security errors.