digital certificates

WordPress pushes Free HTTPS Encryption for all its blogs

WordPress announces "HTTPS Everywhere, Encryption for All WordPress.com Sites," millions websites will be secured without users' effort. WordPress is pushing…

10 years ago

Let’s Encrypt has already issued one Million certificates

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. The open Certificate Authority (CA)…

10 years ago

Authors digitally signed Spymel Trojan to evade detection

Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that uses stolen certificates to evade detection. In late December,…

10 years ago

The US DoD still uses SHA-1 signed certificates for use by military agencies

The United States Department of Defense is still issuing SHA-1 signed certificates for its military agencies, despite they are considered…

10 years ago

Businesses Using Millions of insecure SHA-1 Certificates

Experts at Netcraft discovered that nearly a million SSL SHA-1 certificates were signed with the potentially vulnerable SHA-1 hashing algorithm.…

10 years ago

Cost of Breaking SHA-1 decreases due to a new Collision Attack

A group of researchers has demonstrated that the cost of breaking the SHA-1 hash algorithm is lower than previously estimated.…

10 years ago

OpenSSL fixes Alternative chains certificate forgery flaw

OpenSSL Foundation fixed a critical issue that impacts any application that uses the popular crypto library in the authentication processes.…

11 years ago

The CozyDuke, the last Russian APT group

Kaspersky Lab discovered another APT group dubbed CozyDuke which is believed to have hacked the US Department of State and…

11 years ago

Chinese CA issued bogus digital certificates for Google domains

Google security team has recently discovered and blocked fraudulent digital certificates issued for several Google domains by a Chinese CA. On…

11 years ago

Risks related to the use of digital certificates

A recent report published by experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the number of abuses for digital certificates is in…

11 years ago

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