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 ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

A majority of Mozilla users were served encrypted pageloads for the first time yesterday, meaning their web browsing data was secured from snoopers and hackers while in transit. The HTTPS milestone ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

Better web security has become so commonplace that most sites don’t make a big deal about it anymore. Reddit quietly announced on Tuesday it would soon move all users over to HTTPS encryption by ...

The latest example has to do with encryption. When we bank or shop online, a robust form of encryption protects our data from being intercepted. It is called HTTPS, for Hypertext Transfer Protocol ...

Google's ever-changing Transparency Report now includes a page dedicated to tracking encryption progress both at Google and on some of the web's most trafficked sites. Dubbed HTTPS at Google, the new ...

WWDC 2016: Apple to require HTTPS encryption on all iOS apps by 2017 Your email has been sent At a session at the 2016 WWDC, Apple revealed that it would be requiring all iOS apps to use HTTPS ...

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 ...

A nonprofit effort aimed at encrypting the entire Web has reached an important milestone: its HTTPS certificates are now trusted by all major browsers. The service, which is backed by the Electronic ...