Security News

Scale, frequency and causes of certificate-related outages (Help Net Security)
2017-02-06 12:30

Certificate-related outages negatively impact the reliability and availability of vital systems and services, according to Venafi. “Certificates and keys are identity and access management for...

Google launches its own Root Certificate Authority (Help Net Security)
2017-01-30 20:13

Google is known for slipping fingers in many pies, so it should not come as a surprise that it has opted for starting its own Root Certificate Authority. With the increased implementation of HTTPS...

Growth rates of cryptographic keys and certificates (Help Net Security)
2016-12-16 12:30

A new study conducted by Dimensional Research evaluated current and projected growth rates of cryptographic keys and digital certificates in the enterprise for 2016 and 2017. Study respondents...

Facebook Releases Free Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool (Threatpost)
2016-12-13 14:00

Facebook makes freely available an internal tool used to monitor CT logs for new TLS certificates issued for a domain. Users can monitor and audit this information for malicious or mistakenly issued certs.

35% of websites still using insecure SHA-1 certificates (Help Net Security)
2016-11-21 13:00

35 percent of the world’s websites are still using insecure SHA-1 certificates, according to Venafi. This is despite the fact that leading browser providers, such as Microsoft, Mozilla and Google,...