Security News

DigiCert Offers Continuous Monitoring of Digital Certificates to Defeat Fraud (Threatpost)
2015-04-14 16:26

It’s an interesting time for certificate authorities. On the one hand, interest has never been higher in Web encryption, privacy and transport security, thanks to Edward Snowden. But on the other...

Apple Leaves CNNIC Root in iOS, OSX Certificate Trust Lists (Threatpost)
2015-04-09 14:57

When it was revealed late last month that a Chinese certificate authority had allowed an intermediate CA to issue unauthorized certificates for some Google domains, both Google and Mozilla reacted...

Mozilla revokes trust for CNNIC certificates (Help Net Security)
2015-04-03 09:29

Mozilla has joined Google in revoking trust for certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) Certificate Authority. CNNIC is the administrative agency responsible fo...

Google decides to stop trusting CNNIC certificates (Help Net Security)
2015-04-02 12:41

In the wake of last week's incident caused by the issuance of unauthorized digital certificates for a number of Google domains by the hands of MCS Holdings, an intermediate CA operating under the Chin...

Google Drops Trust in Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC (Threatpost)
2015-04-02 11:59

Google has taken the unusual step of completely removing trust from Chrome for the Chinese certificate authority CNNIC in the wake of an incident in which certificates issued by the CA were...