Security News

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

Venafi and GlobalSign partnership and integration to address DevOps certificate challenges
2019-05-20 00:00

Venafi, the leading provider of machine identity protection, and GMO GlobalSign, a global Certificate Authority and leading provider of identity and security solutions for the Internet of Things...

Certificate issue disabling add-ons in Firefox and Tor Browser finally fixed
2019-05-06 16:49

Mozilla forces third party add-ons to be digitally signed, though an expired certificate disabled these, causing confusion among users of Firefox and the Tor Browser over the weekend.

TA505 Group Hides Malware in Legitimate Certificates
2019-04-25 19:18

APT Group Targets Banks With Backdoor Malware to Penetrate NetworksTA505, a sophisticated advanced persistent threat group, is now using legitimately signed certificates to disguise malware that...

Sectigo enhances its Certificate Manager platform by adding ACME support
2019-04-05 01:00

Despite enterprises’ increasing use of modern, agile computing environments including virtualization, containerization, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud, a vast number of IT administrators...

CIOs admit certificate-related outages routinely impact critical business applications and services
2019-03-29 06:00

Certificate-related outages harm the reliability and availability of vital network systems and services while also being extremely difficult to diagnose and remediate. Unfortunately, the vast...