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 ...

One of the world's most powerful Internet companies is using its leverage to prod other websites into adopting a key safeguard against malicious hackers who try to steal Internet users' passwords or ...

Smarter Encryption is essentially a white list of websites that are verified to be secure. A white list is the opposite of a black list. So rather than creating a list of sites to exclude (black list) ...

The Heartbleed bug – a flaw in an encryption technology used to protect major websites including Yahoo – has left a huge amount of private data at risk - and internet giants are scrambling to find ...

Only about 76 percent of civilian government websites are protected by advanced encryption tools more than eight months after a Homeland Security Department deadline, according to figures shared by ...

According to a recent report, Google may boost the search engine ranking of websites that use encryption. The news comes from a report by the . Google’s Matt Cutts apparently hinted recently that this ...

Google is taking a stand against one kind of net neutrality in a way that most will agree is a good thing: The super-sized search engine will give secure websites priority in its search results, ...