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Lettings ISPs Sell Your Data, Seriously Weakens Existing Consumer Protections. Yesterday, the US Senate voted to undo privacy protections passed during Obama’s administration. The target was an FCC privacy policy…
Firefox 55, Due In August, Will Require HTTPS for Geolocation A future version of Mozilla’s browser, Firefox 55, which is due out in August, will entirely disable Geolocation on HTTP…
Over 14,000 SSL Certificates issued to PayPal phishing sites. Earlier this month I discussed the use of Let’s Encrypt certificates on PayPal phishing sites. In that article I asked Let’s…
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…
Changes are due to CAB Forum Ballot 169 & CAB Forum Ballot 181 As of March 16th, 2017, Symantec officially rolled out its new changes to its certificate validation procedures….
Browsers Continue To Add Warnings About Insecure Content. Firefox 52 is out now, and with a new release comes a new warning about HTTP. There is a pattern here: browsers…
Data shows wide-spread use of certificates for phishing This is an open letter to Let’s Encrypt regarding its issuance of certificates containing the word “PayPal.” Within the SSL/Certificate Authority industry,…
Intermediate certificate fingerprinting is unique to Firefox. To make a successful HTTPS connection, a browser needs to be able to build a chain from the website’s SSL certificate to the root…
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…
Despite the Similarities, This is Not Another Heartbleed. A new vulnerability is being compared to Heartbleed, the most infamous SSL/TLS vulnerability of all time. The Ticketbleed Vulnerability affects F5’s TLS library….
5 Ways to Determine if a Website is Fake, Fraudulent, or a Scam – 2018
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