Security News

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...

Certificates Issued to Huawei Subsidiary Found in Cisco Switches
2019-07-04 05:13

Researchers noticed that the firmware for some Cisco switches contains X.509 certificates and associated private keys issued to a US-based subsidiary of Huawei. An investigation by the networking...

Firefox to Automatically Trust OS-Installed CA Certificates to Prevent TLS Errors
2019-07-02 07:48

Mozilla has finally introduced a mechanism to let Firefox browser automatically fix certain TLS errors, often triggered when antivirus software installed on a system tries to intercept secure...

Threat Actor Poisons OpenPGP Certificates
2019-07-01 15:30

Poisoned certificates are in the OpenPGP SKS keyserver network after an unknown threat actor targeted the OpenPGP certificates of two high-profile community contributors. read more

Free Cloudflare Tool Helps CAs Securely Issue Certificates
2019-06-18 15:54

Internet performance and security firm Cloudflare on Tuesday announced the availability of a free API designed to help certificate authorities (CAs) securly issue certificates by ensuring that...

Securitas and Purdue University Global offer employee security certificate programs
2019-06-14 00:00

Securitas Security Services USA, the knowledge leader in the protective services industry, announced an exclusive partnership with Purdue University Global to offer four security certificate...