• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-17-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Free SSL/TLS certificate project moves closer to launch

Let’s Encrypt, a project aimed at increasing the use of encryption across websites by issuing free digital certificates, is planning to issue the first ones next month.Digital certificates are used to encrypt data traffic between a computer and a server […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-17-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Free SSL/TLS certificate project moves closer to launch

Let’s Encrypt, a project aimed at increasing the use of encryption across websites by issuing free digital certificates, is planning to issue the first ones next month.Digital certificates are used to encrypt data traffic between a computer and a server […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-17-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on How a bad keystroke can lead you to SpeedUpKit ‘scareware’

Dozens of misspelled domain names that spoof major brands are leading unsuspecting PC users to a questionable tune-up application called SpeedUpKit.Since people are unlikely to seek out the application, its promoters rely partly on people misspelling the domain name for […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-16-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Lawmakers worry US OPM breaches endanger national security

Two recently disclosed data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) could endanger national security and the lives of federal workers in intelligence or other sensitive jobs, according to some lawmakers.One of the attacks compromis... Read More