In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

This is a guest post, the thoughts, and opinions expressed here are those of its authors and do not reflect on Techaeris or its staff. Every month another story discloses news about a hacker or team ...

Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

Despite recent controversies, end-to-end encryption should not be weakened, the UK's data protection watchdog has concluded – while acknowledging that some additional measures are needed to mitigate ...

While dozens of companies offer VPN services, the best keep their operation dead simple for users. From their messaging to their in-app user experience, a VPN customer often comes with a very short ...

The government has introduced an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that it says will require the regulator to conduct extra scrutiny before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages ...

The government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has become law amid continued concerns from tech companies that it could damage the privacy of encrypted communications. The Online Safety Act, which ...

The backlash against the encryption-busting Online Safety Bill continues to grow, suggesting the United Kingdom could soon face a looming exodus of secure messaging apps. First drafted in May 2021, ...