Say Goodbye to 2-Year Certificates and Hello to Multi-Year SSL Plans

As of September 1st, 2-year certificates have been replaced by multi-year SSL plans offering similar benefits September 1, 2020 marked the dawn of a new era for SSL certificates. Multi-year…
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Raccoon Attack: Researchers Find A Vulnerability in TLS 1.2

Bad news: there’s a vulnerability in TLS 1.2. Good news: researchers say it’s “very hard to exploit” and major vendors have already released security patches for it. A team of…
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New Study Finds 75% of CIOs Are Concerned About TLS Certificate-Related Security Risks

A recent survey from Venafi found that 93% of surveyed CIOs say they have over 10,000 certificates, and 74% said they’d recently experienced a certificate-related outage
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5 Actionable Takeaways from Ponemon and KeyFactor’s 2020 PKI Study

Looking for the latest stats and info about public key infrastructure? Look no further 74%. That’s how many organizations report not knowing how many keys and certificates they have. This…
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Let’s Encrypt to Revoke 3 Million SSL Certificates on March 4

The world’s leading free SSL provider announces that millions of certificates are being revoked due to a bug they discovered days ago — giving subscribers potentially only hours to respond…
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DoH! Firefox Engages More Secure DNS Over HTTPS Protocol — Here’s What That Means for You

Mozilla announced that the browser will automatically enable domain name system encryption for U.S. users ‘over the next few weeks’ to increase privacy & security On Feb. 25, Mozilla announced…
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SSL Certificate Validity Will Be Limited to One Year by Apple’s Safari Browser

Starting Sept. 1, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with validity periods longer than 398 days Starting Sept. 1, Apple’s Safari browser will no longer trust SSL/TLS leaf certificates…
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Browser Watch: Google Chrome to Block HTTP Downloads

Starting mid-2020, you won’t be able to download certain files on Chrome — here’s why Time after time, we’ve witnessed browser giants making security-related decisions that have a significant impact…
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Cyber Attacks Hit the City of Johannesburg and South African Banks

Hackers attacked several key South African organizations last week, impacting everything from workers’ paychecks to 112 emergency calls “Not all treasure’s silver and gold, mate.” Jack Sparrow Johannesburg may be…
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Browser Updates Round-Up: Continuing the Push for HTTPS Everywhere

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are updating how SSL/HTTPS sites are displayed to users, continuing their initiative to move all internet traffic to HTTPS Google and Mozilla have recently announced…
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