Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Software bugs and misinterpretations of industry standards are at the heart of most cases of incorrectly-issued SSL certificates -- accounting for 42% of all incidents --, a recent academic study has ...

Who really made your software? The technology that protects consumers from spoof websites could be unleashed as the next weapon in the fight against malware. Security company Verisign is looking at ...

Heartbleed wasn't the first security hole discovered in SSL deployments, and it won't be the last. The discovery of the dangerous flaw in a widely deployed SSL software platform, OpenSSL, initially ...

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