Let’s Encrypt hit a milestone last night when it received the cross-signatures necessary to render its beta-and free-certificates trusted by all browsers.
Tag Archives: certificate authority
First Let’s Encrypt Free Certificate Goes Live
Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live.
NetNanny Found Using Shared Private Key, Root CA
An issue with the content-control software NetNanny could open users’ systems up to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks, HTTPS spoofing and intercept, researchers warned Monday.
Threatpost News Wrap, April 2, 2015
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about Google’s decision to drop Chinese CA CNNIC from Chrome’s trust store, the scope of the malvertising threat and Verizon’s super cookie use.
PrivDog Adware Poses Bigger Risk Than Superfish
Another shady piece of adware called PrivDog has been unearthed with a similar Superfish-type vulnerability that breaks SSL connections.
Komodia Website Under DDoS Attack
Komodia.com, home of the SSL module at the heart of the Superfish scandal, is offline because of a DDoS attack.