Security News

Study Finds Rampant Sale of SSL/TLS Certificates on Dark Web
2019-03-07 16:59

SSL and TLS certificates and related services can be easily acquired from dark web marketplaces, according to an academic study sponsored by Venafi, a company specializing in the protection of...

Sale of SSL/TLS certificates on the dark web is rampant
2019-03-06 09:43

There is no dearth of compromised, fake and forged SSL/TLS certificates for sale on dark web markets, researchers have found. TLS certificates are sold individually and packaged with a wide range...

How to regenerate certificates on VMware host servers
2019-02-21 16:13

Regenerating certificates may securely resolve authentication traffic, which is not being properly encrypted.

74% of organizations face outages due to expired certificates
2019-02-19 06:00

As information security budgets grow and funds are allocated to protect the defensive perimeter, many companies have overlooked the critical importance of digital certificate management. And a new...

Google also abused its Apple developer certificate to collect iOS user data
2019-01-31 11:38

It turns out that Google, like Facebook, abused its Apple Enterprise Developer Certificate to distribute a data collection app to iOS users, in direct contravention of Apple’s rules for the...

Shutdown hits government websites as certificates begin to expire
2019-01-14 14:32

The US government shutdown is affecting more than just physical sites like national parks and monuments.

TLS Certificates for Many .gov Domains Not Renewed Due to Government Shutdown
2019-01-10 17:02

Many TLS certificates for .gov domains have not been renewed due to the ongoing shutdown of the United States government, making them insecure or inaccessible. read more

Serious Security: When cryptographic certificates attack
2018-12-19 14:29

Machine learning is all the rage - but don't knock human savvy just yet! One weird character can be enough to alert a smart researcher...

Oh my chord! Sennheiser hits bum note with major HTTPS certificate cock-up
2018-11-29 01:11

Audiophiles could get played like a fiddle, have their web traffic snooped by son-of-a-pitch scammers Headphone maker Sennheiser is facing the music after being caught compromising the security of...

DigiCert works with its partners to move past Google’s distrust of Symantec TLS certificates
2018-11-08 02:30

DigiCert has executed a transfer of online trust, marked by the stable release of Chrome 70 that signals the end of Google’s Symantec root distrust plan. In the year since acquiring Symantec’s...