Yahoo

Let's Encrypt initiative to provide free encryption certificates

A consortium called the Internet Security Research Group, founded by Mozilla, Akamai, Cisco, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan, have ...
Bleeping Computer

14,766 Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites

During the past year, Let's Encrypt has issued a total of 15,270 SSL certificates that contained the word "PayPal" in the domain name or the certificate identity. Of these, approximately 14,766 (96.7% ...

Let's Encrypt launches 'Generation Y,' shortens cert lifetimes to 45 Days0 0

The non-profit certificate authority is rolling out its new Generation Y hierarchy and will gradually shorten the default ...
eWeek

Let’s Encrypt Free Certificates’ Success Challenges SSL/TLS Industry

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone on March 8 by ...
ZDNet

Let's Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate

Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...
Threat Post

Let’s Encrypt to Revoke Millions of TLS Certs

On Wednesday millions of Transport Layer Security certificates will be revoked because of a Certificate Authority Authorization bug. Popular free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said it will ...
ZDNet

Securing the Internet: Let's Encrypt to release first security certificates September 7

Let's Encrypt is scheduled to releases its first security certificates on September 7, 2015. The service will become generally available on November 16. Josh Aas, the Internet Security Research ...
Neowin

Let's Encrypt to revoke certain certificates on March 4

Let’s Encrypt has announced that it will have to revoke many Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificates from March 4. It’s currently in the process of emailing affected subscribers so that they can update ...
Hackaday

Let’s Encrypt Will Stop Working For Older Android Devices

Let’s Encrypt was founded in 2012, going public in 2014, with the aim to improve security on the web. The goal was to be achieved by providing free, automated access to SSL and TLS certificates that ...
TechCrunch

Let’s Encrypt issues 3 billion HTTPS certificates

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation

Earlier this week, Let's Encrypt announced that it would revoke roughly three million—2.6 percent—of its currently active certificates. Last night, however, the organization announced that it would ...
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt discovers CAA bug, must revoke customer certificates

On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced that it had discovered a bug in its CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) code. The bug opens up a window of time in which a certificate might be issued even ...