Security News > 2019 > August > The probability that an EV SSL certificate is associated with a bad domain is 0.013%

In 2018, phishing attacks were attempted 482.5 million times, more than doubling the number of incidents in 2017. New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory confirms that a website with a company-branded address bar greatly decreases the chance of internet users falling victim to a malware attack or phishing (fraud) scam. CyFI Lab’s research concluded that the presence of an Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificate represents a 99.987% … More → The post The probability that an EV SSL certificate is associated with a bad domain is 0.013% appeared first on Help Net Security.

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