Security News

New Threat Actor Fraudulently Buys Digital Certificates to Spread Malware
2019-09-16 13:13

ReversingLabs identified cybercriminals duping certificate authorities by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling the certificates on the black market.

Chrome bumps ineffective EV certificates off the omnibar
2019-09-10 10:40

Ever notice a missing company name next to the URL address bar? Ever change behavior because of it? Likely not, so bye-bye, useless badge.

HID Global’s IdenTrust digital certificates now members of the Adobe Approved Trust List
2019-09-06 00:30

HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, announced that its IdenTrust digital certificates are now certified members of the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL) program, the...

Entrust Datacard issues a new Verified Mark Certificate
2019-09-05 23:45

Entrust Datacard, a leading provider of trusted identity and secure issuance technology solutions, announces its contribution to the first issuance of a new Verified Mark Certificate (VMC)....

Imperva Firewall Breach Exposes Customer API Keys, SSL Certificates
2019-08-27 16:58

The issue impacts users of the vendor's Cloud WAF product.

Google and Mozilla Block Kazakhstan’s Root CA Certificates to Prevent Spying
2019-08-21 11:03

In a move to protect its users based in Kazakhstan from government surveillance, Google and Mozilla finally today came forward and blocked Kazakhstan's government-issued root CA certificate within...

Venafi guarantees elimination of certificate-related outages within complex architectures
2019-08-08 02:30

Venafi, the leading provider and inventor of machine identity protection, announced at Black Hat USA 2019 the industry’s first no-outage guarantee. Combining the power of the Venafi platform with...

The probability that an EV SSL certificate is associated with a bad domain is 0.013%
2019-08-01 04:45

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...

Unique Monokle Android Spyware Self-Signs Certificates
2019-07-24 17:48

Researchers have linked the surveillance tool to a Russian tech firm that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Certificate-related outages impact the reputation of financial services organizations
2019-07-18 04:45

Financial services organizations are more likely to have digital certificate-related outages than other industries, a Venafi study reveals. Over 100 CIOs in the financial services industry from...