Security News

Symantec API Flaws reportedly let attackers steal Private SSL Keys and Certificates (The Hackers News)
2017-03-28 09:54

A security researcher has disclosed critical issues in the processes and third-party API used by Symantec certificate resellers to deliver and manage Symantec SSL certificates. The flaw,...

Google to sanction Symantec for misissuing security certificates (Help Net Security)
2017-03-24 15:40

In a post on a developers’ forum, software engineer on the Google Chrome team Ryan Sleevi has announced Google’s plan to start gradually distrust all existing Symantec-issued certificates, and...

21% of websites still use insecure SHA-1 certificates (Help Net Security)
2017-03-08 19:38

New research from Venafi Labs shows that 21 percent of the world’s websites are still using certificates signed with the vulnerable Secure Hash Algorithm, SHA-1. On February 23, 2017, Google...