Website hosting platform WordPress.com will automatically enable HTTPS for all the custom domain names that its users have associated with their websites. Run by Automattic, WordPress.com allows users ...

Unencrypted web traffic may soon be a thing of the past after major technology companies announced an initiative to make encryption free and available to all. With government security agencies and ...

Only about 76 percent of civilian government websites are protected by advanced encryption tools more than eight months after a Homeland Security Department deadline, according to figures shared by ...

Last year, Google introduced SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to searches made through Google.com. Now, the effort to strengthen user privacy through encrypted search queries is becoming global, ...

Google software engineer Milinda Perera said this week that the company is now rolling out an HTTPS version of every single blog stored away on the Blogspot domain. That means visitors can load up ...

In the wake of the revelations that intelligence agencies have been engaged in mass surveillance activities, both industry and society at large are looking for practicable encryption solutions that ...

The U.S. Senate has started to implement an encrypted HTTPS channel to secure its domains, including the individual sites of the 100 senators, ZDNet reported. The change will make little difference ...

Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it. Earlier this week the encryption app Signal, already a favorite within ...

How the top VPNs compare: Plus, should you try a free VPN? We tested the best VPN services -- focusing on the number of servers, ability to unlock streaming services, and more -- to determine a No. 1 ...