certificates

Underground vendors can reliably obtain code signing certificates from CAs

June 26, 2018

More and more malware authors are switching to buying new, valid code signing certificates issued by Certificate Authorities instead of using stolen (compromised) ones, …

Make certificate visibility and security a part of your overall security program

May 30, 2018

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Asif Karel, Director of Product Management at Qualys, illustrates why certificate visibility and security should not just be …

Counterfeit digital certificates for sale on underground forums

February 23, 2018

Signing malicious code with valid digital certificates is a helpful trick used by attackers to maximize the odds that malware won’t be flagged by antivirus solutions and …

Realistic, well-positioned Reddit clone is out to grab users’ login credentials

February 6, 2018

A convincing clone of the popular social news aggregation and discussion site Reddit has been spotted on the reddit.co domain. The author is obviously counting on users not to …

Microsoft plugs 56 vulns, including Office flaw exploited in attacks

January 10, 2018

As part of the January 2018 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 56 CVE-listed vulnerabilities, including the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, and an Office bug actively …

How much do criminals pay for certificates on the dark web?

November 3, 2017

The Cyber Security Research Institute (CSRI) conducted a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. The research uncovered …

Making HTTPS phishing sites easier to spot

June 28, 2017

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 …

Google to sanction Symantec for misissuing security certificates

March 24, 2017

In a post on a developers’ forum, software engineer on the Google Chrome team Ryan Sleevi has announced Google’s plan to start gradually distrust all existing …

Automating PKI for the IoT platform

March 6, 2017

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Jeremy Rowley, Executive VP of Emerging Markets at DigiCert, talks about automating PKI for IoT platform and building scalable …

New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function

February 24, 2017

SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a …

Scale, frequency and causes of certificate-related outages

February 6, 2017

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

Google launches its own Root Certificate Authority

January 30, 2017

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 …