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Some Google Chrome users report having issues connecting to websites, servers, and firewalls after Chrome 124 was released last week with the new quantum-resistant X25519Kyber768 encapsulation mechanism enabled by default. Google started testing the post-quantum secure TLS key encapsulation mechanism in August and has now enabled it in the latest Chrome version for all users.

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.

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 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 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).

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 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.

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 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 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.