Security News
Email security company Mimecast has disclosed today that a "Sophisticated threat actor" compromised one of the certificates the company issues for customers to securely connect Microsoft 365 Exchange to their services. "Microsoft recently informed us that a Mimecast-issued certificate provided to certain customers to authenticate Mimecast Sync and Recover, Continuity Monitor, and IEP products to Microsoft 365 Exchange Web Services has been compromised by a sophisticated threat actor," Mimecast said earlier today.
A Microsoft root certificate is expiring at the end of this month, and Microsoft warns that removing it could cause problems with the operating system. Earlier this month, BornCity reported that the 'Microsoft Root Authority' certificate in Microsoft's Trusted Root Certification Authorities was expiring at the end of the month, on 12/31/20.
Entrust announced that Entrust Certificate Manager is now available in the ServiceNow Store. With the Entrust Certificate Manager App for ServiceNow, users are able to manage their assets, configuration and digital identities in one place.
Manufacturers can now embed certificates on chipsets prior to and during manufacturing, or directly to an edge device, for complete end-to-end device security. IoT Device Manager is built on DigiCert ONE, which enables rapid, automated PKI deployment as a customer-managed, on-premises or cloud solution, or managed by DigiCert for any environment.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
DigiCert and Atea jointly announced a partnership to launch the new Atea Managed Certificate Service offering insight into certificate health, usage and endpoint vulnerabilities to ensure the best possible customer experience for secure communication. Delivered by Atea Managed Services and powered by core DigiCert CertCentral technology the new service includes the ability to automatically locate, identify, and track all certificates in use with 24/7 monitoring, management and renewals throughout any network and connected device environment.
Microsoft has resolved a known issue leading to missing system and user certificates after updating managed Windows 10 systems using outdated installation media. The lost Windows 10 certificates issue impacts client and server platforms in managed environments.
This morning, GitHub's pristine layout vanished off of the repository, in what looks like a miss on the company's part in renewing an SSL certificate. The expired certificate prevented numerous resources like images, JavaScript, and CSS stylesheets from correctly loading on GitHub.
Microsoft is investigating a known issue leading to missing system and user certificates after updating certain managed Windows 10 systems using outdated installation media through update management tools, physical media, or ISO images. "System and user certificates might be lost when updating a device from Windows 10, version 1809 or later to a later version of Windows 10," Microsoft explains.
Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services is an integrated, optional component of Windows Server designed to issue digital certificates. There are no free or open source Linux, UNIX or Mac tools available today that provide auto-enrollment or integrate with the Microsoft CA. The only "Free" option is to manually create and renew certificates from a Microsoft CA using complicated and error-prone commands.