Security News

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...

CAs Reissue Over One Million Weak Certificates
2019-03-18 11:23

Turns out that the software a bunch of CAs used to generate public-key certificates was flawed: they created random serial numbers with only 63 bits instead of the required 64. That may not seem...

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...