What is a CSR? Here’s everything you need to know
– – – – -BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST- – – – – The Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is the first step in an SSL certificate’s life cycle – it is…
– – – – -BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST- – – – – The Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is the first step in an SSL certificate’s life cycle – it is…
How Wildcard Certificates “Hide The Phish” Ever since free and automated SSL certificates have been popularized – primarily by Let’s Encrypt, but also by Cloudflare – there has been a…
Fewer Symantec customers will be affected, prepare for changes coming 2018. In March, Google’s Chrome team announced that it had a problem with Symantec for violating industry standards related to…
Symantec Will Partner With A CA To Issue Certificates Last Friday Google and Symantec shared a proposal that will allow Symantec to move forward following the violations and mis-issuances that…
3-year Certificates Are Being Phased out as the industry embraces reduced SSL certificate lifetimes. Last month the CAB Forum approved Ballot 193, which will see reduced SSL certificate lifetimes, as the…
Certificate Authority Authorization Protects Domain Owners From Mis-Issuance. Starting soon, new rules will make CAA checking mandatory. Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) is an optional security measure that website operators can…
Banrisul Website Taken Over By Hackers, SSL Helped Mask The Attack. Dmitry Besthuzhev and Fabio Assolini from Kaspersky Lab presented their investigation of an attack against a Brazilian bank, Banrisul, at…
New Figures Show Wide Support for Feature Allowing HTTPS On Virtual Hosts. New data from Akamai confirms that Server Name Indication (SNI) is widely deployed and can be used in…
The New Maximum SSL Certificate Validity Will Take Effect in 2018. CAB Forum Ballot 193 has passed, this means a new, shorter, maximum SSL certificate validity period. The CAB Forum…
A balance needs to be found between security and usability. This week the Certificate Authority and Browser Forum (CAB Forum) is voting on a ballot that would make changes to…
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