Security News

How Google’s 90-day TLS certificate validity proposal will affect enterprises
2024-04-11 05:00

Announced last year, Google's proposal to reduce the lifespan of TLS certificates from 13 months to 90 days could be implemented in the near future. As a result, the new 90-day TLS certificate lifespan proposed by Google will have far-reaching impacts on three areas of corporate IT: DevOps, security and operations.

Messaging Service Wiretap Discovered through Expired TLS Cert
2023-10-27 11:01

The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the administrator of jabber. Ru, the largest Russian XMPP service, received a notification that one of the servers' certificates had expired.

Microsoft calls time on ancient TLS in Windows, breaking own stuff in the process
2023-09-04 14:15

Microsoft has reminded users that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will soon be disabled by default in Windows. SQL Server 2008 R2 finally dropped out of Extended Security Updates in July, although Microsoft has published instructions for adding TLS 1.2 support.

Microsoft reminds users Windows will disable insecure TLS soon
2023-09-03 14:20

Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases. The original TLS 1.0 specification and its TLS 1.1 successor have been used for nearly two decades, with TLS 1.0 initially introduced in 1999 and TLS 1.1 in 2006).

Enhancing TLS Security: Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Encryption in Chrome 116
2023-08-11 12:22

Google has announced plans to add support for quantum-resistant encryption algorithms in its Chrome browser, starting with version 116. "Chrome will begin supporting X25519Kyber768 for establishing symmetric secrets in TLS, starting in Chrome 116, and available behind a flag in Chrome 115," Devon O'Brien said in a post published Thursday.

Microsoft Sharepoint outage caused by use of wrong TLS certificate
2023-07-24 22:46

Microsoft Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business were briefly interrupted today after a German TLS certificate was mistakenly added to the main.com domains for the Microsoft 365 services. At approximately 3:08 PM ET today, a Microsoft 365 advisory 'SP659992' warned that users may be unable to access SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
2022-11-10 15:18

Most western nations like America, Australia etc have legislation "To compell" in one way or abother. Others have placed staff in CA's or by financial manipulation have gained sympathetic help.

Microsoft fixes TLS handshake failures in Windows 11 22H2
2022-10-26 16:54

Microsoft has addressed a known issue that triggers SSL/TLS handshake failures on client and server platforms with the release of the KB5018496 preview cumulative update. [...]

cert-manager: Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
2022-10-24 03:30

Cert-manager adds certificates and certificate issuers as resource types in Kubernetes clusters and simplifies the process of obtaining, renewing, and using those certificates. Cert-manager is an open-source project that automates the issuance and renewal of X.509 certificates for cloud-native Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.

Microsoft fixes Windows TLS handshake failures in out-of-band updates
2022-10-17 21:41

Microsoft has issued an out-of-band non-security update to address an issue triggering SSL/TLS handshake failures on client and server platforms. "We address an issue that might affect some types of Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security connections. These connections might have handshake failures," Microsoft explains.