certificates

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 …

35% of websites still using insecure SHA-1 certificates

November 21, 2016

35 percent of the world’s websites are still using insecure SHA-1 certificates, according to Venafi. This is despite the fact that leading browser providers, such as …

Final warning: Popular browsers will soon stop accepting SHA-1 certificates

November 17, 2016

Starting with Chrome 56, planned to be released to the wider public at the end of January 2017, Google will remove support for SHA-1 certificates. Other browser makers plan to …

Cloud and IoT adoption requires organizations to future-proof PKI implementations

October 11, 2016

New research by the Ponemon Institute shows an increased reliance on PKIs in today’s enterprise environment, driven by the growing use of cloud-based services and …

Kaspersky Safe Browser iOS app sports MITM SSL certificate bug

August 1, 2016

Security researcher David Coomber has unearthed a vulnerability (CVE-2016-6231) in the Kaspersky Safe Browser iOS app that effectively contradicts its name. As it turns out, …

Open source hardware cryptographic module offered for $800

July 19, 2016

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. …