Should the Strict-Transport-Security max-age be tied to the duration of the certificate?

I understand the principle of HSTS, and the fact that the choice of max-age limits how long a visitor could potentially be locked out if the site somehow lost its certificate and had to go back to HTTP-only for a while. When … Continue reading Should the Strict-Transport-Security max-age be tied to the duration of the certificate?

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy.

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. Continue reading A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Lets encrypt ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED on chrome 68.0.3440.106 [migrated]

I have a VPS server under Ubuntu 17.10, and I have 2 domains, I have created a successful SSL certificate for the first domain 2 months ago,
Today I tried to install lets encrypt domain for the 2nd one, with

certbot –authe… Continue reading Lets encrypt ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED on chrome 68.0.3440.106 [migrated]