Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

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Who really made your software? The technology that protects consumers from spoof websites could be unleashed as the next weapon in the fight against malware. Security company Verisign is looking at ...

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Nokia is upgrading software for its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) remote access appliances so they can fail over to one another and share configuration settings. With Secure Access System 2.0 software, ...

Tumblr blog owners can encrypt all visits to their sites, as long as they opt in. Why didn't Yahoo just make SSL the default setting? Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET ...