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Facebook Can Now Encrypt Notification Emails

2015-06-02 19:03:24| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

If someone breaks into your email account, they won't be able to read Facebook messages without a private key.

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Facebook Can Now Encrypt Notification Emails

2015-06-02 19:03:24| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

If someone breaks into your email account, they won't be able to read Facebook messages without a private key.

Tags: notification emails facebook encrypt

Google's push to encrypt ads will improve security, but won't kill malvertising

2015-04-20 18:37:41| Wireless - Topix.net

Google plans to serve most of its ads over encrypted HTTPS connections by the end of June, a move that will protect against some ad hijacking attacks and will encourage website owners to enable encryption on their Web properties. However, malicious advertising attacks that direct users to Web-based exploits will still be possible and, because of the new encryption, it will be harder for security researchers to pinpoint their source.

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EFF and Mozilla join forces to encrypt the entire web by giving away free HTTPS certs

2014-11-19 16:23:10| Extremetech

Starting in 2015, everyone will be able to get their hands on a free, officially sanctioned SSL/TLS certificate so that HTTPS can finally be enabled everywhere. The new service -- a certificate authority (CA) called Let's Encrypt -- is led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, and the University of Michigan, with Cisco and Akamai joining as major launch partners. If you don't know much about SSL, TLS, and HTTPS, trust me when I say that this is a very big deal.

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