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Analysis reveals the most common causes behind mis-issued SSL/TLS certificates

We should be able to trust public key certificates, but this is the real world: mistakes and “mistakes” happen. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington …

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Cybercriminals are increasingly using encryption to conceal and launch attacks

In this Help Net Security podcast, Deepen Desai, VP Security Research & Operations at Zscaler, talks about the latest Zscaler Cloud Security Insight Report, which focuses …

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Making HTTPS phishing sites easier to spot

For years, we taught users that a website’s URL that includes https at its very beginning is a relatively good indicator of whether they can safely input sensitive …

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Google launches its own Root Certificate Authority

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 …

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New minimum code signing requirements for use by all CAs

The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), an advocacy group committed to the advancement web security, announced the Code Signing Working Group has released new …

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Open source hardware cryptographic module offered for $800

For a few years now, the CrypTech project has been working on designing an open source hardware cryptographic engine that could be used to secure core Internet infrastructure. …

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Let’s Encrypt CA inadvertently leaks users’ email addresses

Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit Certificate Authority (CA) that helps website administrators switch from HTTP to HTTPS quickly and effortlessly, has accidentally leaked …

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