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 ...

What is an SSL certificate? Does your website actually need to have one? Did you know that Google is now showing any and all non-SSL websites as “Not Secure?”. When going through the process of ...

Web Services will acquire and maintain SSL certificates for all hosted web sites. By default, all non-SSL connections will be redirected to SSL connections and it is recommended that this default be ...

Amazon has announced a new service called AWS Certificate Manager, offering free SSL/TLS certificates for AWS resources. Back in June, GeekWire reported that Amazon had applied to become a root ...

With the evolution of the internet, the solutions for better protection of websites increase -- and so does the creativity of cybercriminals. For several years now, organizations like Google have been ...

A reader reported receiving a message in Google Search Console about a self-signed SSL certificate. Google has been sending warnings about this for years. A self-signed SSL certificate is one that is ...

Certificate authorities aren’t scrutinizing who gets their SSL certificates, and now a large number of phishing sites have legitimate certificates, said Netcraft, a United Kingdom-based Internet ...