This draft previously contained specific hostnames, IPs, and DSNs which have been removed at the request of the reporter. The public issue has been closed and locked to avoid exposing sensitive ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

Kohler is facing backlash after an engineer pointed out that the company’s new smart toilet cameras may not be as private as it wants people to believe. The discussion raises questions about Kohler’s ...

TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking — first to 200 days, then to just 47. That means more frequent renewals, higher risk of outages, and tighter operational timelines. For years, organizations ...

Researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland have discovered that huge amounts of satellite communications — including calls, texts, and internet data from civilian, commercial, ...

Every digital transaction—checkout, login, API call—runs on a hidden foundation of millions of machine identities. Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, just one type of machine identity, are ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

What just happened? Let's Encrypt began issuing free TLS certificates in 2015. After becoming the world's largest certificate authority, the nonprofit is now targeting niche use cases – such as ...