Symantec hopes to capitalise on that desire to keep things simple. The company plans to sell SafeWeb's SSL VPN technology on its own hardware platform as a standalone product in the first quarter of ...

Symantec's Encryption Everywhere program aims to see all web sites and their users protected by SSL by 2018. The vast majority of websites do not use SSL encryption because of the cost and technical ...

Adding yet another piece to its portfolio of computer network security solutions, Cupertino, California-based security giant Symantec announced the purchase of SafeWeb for US$26 million in cash. On ...

Online security is not just something for the rich and famous to worry about but increasingly the proliferation of broadband routers is leading to malware writers finding new and inventive ways to ...

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If you’ve encountered errors over the past month when trying to access HTTPS-enabled websites on your computer or Android phone, it might have been due to a bug in Chrome. The bug affected the ...

In what is sure to cause concern at the the top levels of one of the leading security software vendors, upcoming releases of the two more popular Web browsers, Chrome and Firefox, will no longer trust ...

Symantec has found a way to make a dispute with Google over the validity of its TLS and SSL certificates go away — and get paid almost US$1 billion in the process. Browser developers including Google ...

Symantec, which makes a variety of security gear, will add Secure Sockets Layer remote access equipment to its arsenal. The company this month will ship two appliances it calls the Clientless VPN ...

It's official now: Only suckers pay for DV (domain validated) TLS/SSL certificates (hereinafter just 'TLS'). Symantec, the dominant player in the market, is going to give them away through a ...

In the face of devastating penalties prepared by Google, Symantec announced plans to sell its SSL issuance certificate business to rival company DigiCert. The price of the acquisition is $950 million ...

Antivirus and computer security company Symantec Corp. said on Monday that it purchased SafeWeb Inc. of Emeryville, California, for $26 million in cash. SafeWeb makes technology that gives workers ...