certificates
Product pitch: DigiCert Certificate Inspector
SSL Certificates serve as the security backbone of the internet, securing billions of interactions annually. Yet, too often, system administrators fail to properly configure …
Qualys introduces Continuous Monitoring cloud service
Qualys introduced Continuous Monitoring, the most recent addition to its QualysGuard Cloud Platform, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. This new offering gives …
Identify and fix vulnerabilities in your SSL certificates
DigiCert announced DigiCert Certificate Inspector, a tool designed to quickly find problems in certificate configuration and implementation, and provide real-time analysis of …
Fake SSL certificates used to impersonate Facebook, Google, banks
Analysts with UK-based Internet research firm Netcraft have discovered a considerable number of fake SSL certificates in the wild, created to impersonate banks, social …
Resurgence of malware signed with stolen certificates
Since 2009, variants of the Winwebsec rogue AV family have been trying to trick users into believing their computer has been infected and into paying for …
Opera developers explain why malicious “update” wasn’t detected
Opera Software has finally come out with more details about the recent compromise of its internal infrastructure, the theft of an expired code signing certificate, and the …
Opera infrastructure compromised, users hit with malicious update
A breach of the Opera Software internal infrastructure has resulted in the theft of an expired Opera code signing certificate and used it to sign a piece of malware, package …
Plugging the trust gap
Every business and government is dependent upon cryptographic keys and certificates to provide trust for critical communications. These trust technologies underpin the modern …
Malicious Java applet uses stolen certificate to run automatically
A signed but malicious applet that will apparently fool even the latest Java 6 update has been discovered on a German online dictionary website infected by the g01pack exploit …
Digital certificates and malware: a dangerous mix
In the past few days we have heard several stories about major corporations getting hacked and their security systems completely bypassed. If anything, that should remind us …
GitHub MitM attack orchestrated by Chinese censors?
China-based users and visitors of GitHub, the globally popular online source code repository, have been targeted with an man-in-the-middle attack late last Friday, reports …
Fraudulent digital certificate for Google web properties used in active attacks
A fraudulent digital certificate that could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks against several Google web properties has …