The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever you're dating a document, or—in the case of Riot Games—forgetting to renew the ...

However, for millions of players, this year began with frustration as Riot Games forgot to renew the SSL certificate for League of Legends, rendering the game unplayable. This incident highlights the ...

VPNs date back to the 1990s when the public internet lacked almost any form of security, and the technology was developed to provide secure and cost-effective connections across this insecure ...

SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol that provides secure communications between two devices. It is most commonly used in website transactions, such as when a customer is entering their credit ...

Time and again, we hear of incidents involving identity theft, stealing of account passwords, installation of malware from web sources, and even ransomware. All of these security breaches have a ...

This information is also available as a TechRepublic download. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and its successor TLS (Transport Layer Security) are two technologies that enable secure communications on a ...

To enable users to browse safely on Chrome, Chrome requires websites to use trustworthy certificates. A secure website must have trustworthy SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates. In other words, if ...