Symantec's Encryption Everywhere program aims to see all web sites and their users protected by SSL by 2018. The vast majority of websites do not use SSL encryption because of the cost and technical ...

Online security is not just something for the rich and famous to worry about but increasingly the proliferation of broadband routers is leading to malware writers finding new and inventive ways to ...

Adding yet another piece to its portfolio of computer network security solutions, Cupertino, California-based security giant Symantec announced the purchase of SafeWeb for US$26 million in cash. On ...

If you’ve encountered errors over the past month when trying to access HTTPS-enabled websites on your computer or Android phone, it might have been due to a bug in Chrome. The bug affected the ...

Antivirus and computer security company Symantec Corp. announced today that it purchased SafeWeb Inc. in Emeryville, Calif., for $26 million in cash. SafeWeb makes technology that gives workers secure ...

It's official now: Only suckers pay for DV (domain validated) TLS/SSL certificates (hereinafter just 'TLS'). Symantec, the dominant player in the market, is going to give them away through a ...

In what is sure to cause concern at the the top levels of one of the leading security software vendors, upcoming releases of the two more popular Web browsers, Chrome and Firefox, will no longer trust ...

Google is considering a harsh punishment for repeated incidents in which Symantec or its certificate resellers improperly issued SSL certificates. A proposed plan is to force the company to replace ...

Symantec has found a way to make a dispute with Google over the validity of its TLS and SSL certificates go away — and get paid almost US$1 billion in the process. Browser developers including Google ...