Tech companies want you to have free web encryption

Ideally, you’d encrypt everything you do on the web to keep it away from spies and thieves. However, getting a security certificate to enable that encryption on your own site can be both costly and difficult — many people don’t even bother....

You’ve been hacked! Here’s what to do

Russian criminals have stolen more than 1.2 billion Internet usernames and passwords, and the odds are decent that some of yours might be among them. There’s no need to panic at this point — Hold Security, the firm that discovered the theft, says the gang...

Major bug called ‘Heartbleed’ exposes Internet data

A newly discovered security bug nicknamed Heartbleed has exposed millions of usernames, passwords and reportedly credit card numbers — a major problem that hackers could have exploited during the more than two years it went undetected. It’s unlike most of the breaches...