May 4, 2017 Nowhere to Hide: The Tor Browser Profiles Itself 2 min read - Security researcher Dr. Neal Krawetz reported that the Tor browser discloses details that could enable fraudsters to deduce individual use patterns.
April 19, 2017 Digital Privacy: The Value of Lies? 2 min read - Is digital privacy a right or a privilege? That's the most recent raging debate among consumers, and it could spur a new era of digital misinformation.
April 13, 2017 SSL Certificates Now Need Mandatory Authorization Checks 2 min read - According to new guidelines, as of September 2017 SSL certificates will have to be checked against a dataset before they can be issued.
March 28, 2017 Symantec’s SSL Certificate May Get Cut Off by Chrome 2 min read - In response to alleged violations, Google announced that its Chrome web browser will not trust an SSL certificate from Symantec for more than 279 days.
February 27, 2017 Collision Attack Sounds the Death Knell for SHA-1 Cryptographic Function 2 min read - Google's announcement of the first-ever collision attack means the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) is officially no longer secure.
Endpoint February 24, 2017 Making the Move to an All-HTTPS Network 2 min read - There are countless benefits to moving web infrastructure to support the HTTPS protocol, but it's not as simple as swapping one protocol for another.
January 31, 2017 New Root Certificate Authority From Google Builds Foundations for Secure Web 2 min read - Google launched its own root certificate authority as part of a push to implement the secure web protocol HTTPS across all its services and products.
January 16, 2017 Tricky Tracking: New Cross-Browser Fingerprinting IDs User Hardware 3 min read - A new cross-browser fingerprinting technique has the ability to identify user hardware. Is there any way for users to stay anonymous anymore?
December 1, 2016 Browser Malware Skunks Tor 2 min read - Security-focused web browser Tor was compromised by browser malware last week. Researchers also found ransomware hiding on the Tor network.
November 21, 2016 Browsers to End SHA-1 Support in 2017 2 min read - Some of the biggest names in the web browser game — namely, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla — plan to stop accepting insecure SHA-1 certificates in 2017.