Security News

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...

Code signing keys and certificates are crucial security assets, are you protecting them?
2019-06-13 05:00

Only 28 percent of organizations consistently enforce a defined security process for code signing certificates, a Venafi study of over 320 security professionals in the U.S., Canada and Europe...

How to install CA certificates in Ubuntu server
2019-06-03 17:08

Having trouble getting CA certificates installed and recognized in Ubuntu Server? Find out how it's done with a few quick commands.

Sectigo Revokes Certificates Used to Sign Malware Following Recent Report
2019-05-28 14:33

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) says it revoked more than 100 digital certificates following a report from Chronicle that thousands of malware samples found on VirusTotal over the past year...

Comodo Issued Most Certificates for Signed Malware on VirusTotal
2019-05-23 15:49

Comodo CA (now known as Sectigo) is the Certificate Authority (CA) that issued the largest number of digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on VirusTotal over the past year,...

LinkedIn Allowed TLS Certificate to Expire—Again
2019-05-22 15:43

Microsoft-owned social media giant LinkedIn has once again put user data and privacy at risk by allowing a TLS certificate to expire. read more