digital certificates

Fraudulent purchases of digitals certificates through executive impersonation

Experts at ReversingLabs spotted a threat actor buying digital certificates by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling them on the…

6 years ago

Research confirms rampant sale of SSL/TLS certificates on darkweb

A study conducted by academics discovered that SSL and TLS certificates and associated services can be easily acquired from dark…

7 years ago

The controversial certificate authority StartCom will go out of business on January 1, 2018

The Startcom CA board chairman Xiaosheng Tan, announced that the controversial certificate authority will end its activity on January 1, 2018.…

8 years ago

Google will ban WoSign and StartCom certificates from Chrome 61

Google is going to completely ban digital certificates issued by the Chinese CA WoSign, and its subsidiary StartCom starting with…

9 years ago

SHAttered attack, Google and CWI conducted the first SHA-1 collision attack

Experts at Google and CWI conducted the first real world collision attack against popular SHA-1 hashing algorithm, so called shattered-attack.…

9 years ago

Kaspersky fixing a serious problem with inspection digital certificates

Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a serious flaw that affects the Kaspersky antivirus software and the way it manages inspection…

9 years ago

Mozilla plans to ban the Chinese CA WoSign due to trust violations

Mozilla is at the point of banning Chinese certificate authority WoSign due to a number of severe violations that could…

9 years ago

BitTorrent client Transmission found distributing Mac malware once again

It has happened again, Mac users who were looking for the BitTorrent client Transmission might have been infected by the…

9 years ago

Shad0wS3C claimed responsibility for the EJBCA data breach

Shad0w Security (Shad0wS3C) claimed responsibility for the data breach of the EJBCA that resulted in the exposure of credentials and…

10 years ago

Why surveillance firm Blue Coat was granted a powerful encryption certificate?

Experts discovered that the Controversial Surveillance firm Blue Coat was granted a powerful encryption certificate that can be used for…

10 years ago

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