More than 1 Million Websites Install Free SSL Certificate (and Counting...)

Let's Encrypt has achieved another big milestone by issuing 1 million free Transport Layer Security (TLS) SSL Certificates to webmasters who wish to secure the communications between their users and domains.



Let's Encrypt – operated by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) – is an absolutely free, and open source certificate authority recognized by all major browsers, including

Hackers Install Free SSL Certs from Let's Encrypt On Malicious Web Sites

Who else didn't see this coming?



It was so obvious as I stressed earlier that the Let's Encrypt free HTTPS certificates would not just help legitimate website operators to encrypt its users' traffic, but also help criminals to bother innocent users with malware through secure sites.



Let's Encrypt allows anyone to obtain free SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security)

How to Install Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate On Your Website

Another Big Milestone – Let's Encrypt is now offering Free HTTPS certificates to everyone.



Let's Encrypt has opened to the public, allowing anyone to obtain Free SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security) certificates for their web servers and to set up HTTPS websites in a few simple steps (mentioned below).



Let's Encrypt – an initiative run by the Internet Security Research

Let's Encrypt Project issues its First Free SSL/TLS Certificate

Last fall the non-profit foundation EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) launched an initiative called Let's Encrypt that aimed at providing Free Digital Cryptographic Certificates (TLS) to any website that needs them.



Today, Let's Encrypt – a free automated Open-source Certificate Authority (CA) – has signed its first certificate, hitting what it calls a major milestone to encrypt all

SSL Encryption — Securing Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things (IoT) with the purpose of providing convenience to the users enabled every object in the universe to be as smart as a whip.



By assigning IP address to all sorts of devices, ranging from household appliances, machines, medical devices and sensors to other day-to-day objects, and putting them all together on a standardised network is a common Internet of Things (IoT)

13-year-old SSL/TLS Weakness Exposing Sensitive Data in Plain Text

The most popular and widely used encryption scheme has been found to be weaker with the disclosure of a new attack that could allow attackers to steal credit card numbers, passwords and other sensitive data from transmissions protected by SSL (secure sockets layer) and TLS (transport layer security) protocols.



The attack leverages a 13-year-old weakness in the less secure Rivest Cipher 4 (