Let’s Encrypt was founded in 2012, going public in 2014, with the aim to improve security on the web. The goal was to be achieved by providing free, automated access to SSL and TLS certificates that ...

The increasing amount of data we’re all generating is everywhere: in smartphones, laptops, thumb drives, and dozens of online services. How can we secure all of them against unwarranted access? We ...

Tests and announcements have been made, and now the Let's Encrypt project is making 6-day and IP certificates available to ...

Dan Graziano is an associate editor for CNET. His work has appeared on BGR, Fox News, Fox Business, and Yahoo News, among other publications. When he isn't tinkering with the latest gadgets and gizmos ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

The laptop you’re working on might cost only a few hundred bucks, but if you use it to work with sensitive data–especially personal or business-related information–the data it contains is worth far ...

We’ve looked at a handful of virtual private networks here at Underscored, notably NordVPN and CyberGhost VPN. And whenever we dig around for a new VPN to try out, we come across names we hadn’t ...

Microsoft has confirmed a known issue that prevents recipients from opening encrypted emails in classic Outlook.

Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...