Internet fraud has become more coordinated and sophisticated, eroding consumer confidence, which is so necessary in the Internet business. Phishing – this is just one of many tactics that scammers use to get personal, confidential information of users. Due to…
If your company – a major Internet project, you need an SSL certificate with Extended Validation. This certificate is the prestigious company attribute in the Internet – it allows you to set “seal of confidence” on website, confirming ownership of…
Rejection of the SHA-1 certificates had an impact not only on the owners of sites and software vendors, but also to malware creators. In a recent report, Symantec revealed information that company discovered a whole family of malicious programs that…
PCI SSC has officially announced the postponement of the deadline for the use of unsecure cryptographic SSL protocol with the June 2016 to June 2018. The decision was made in response to requests representatives of industry and information security community…
What is required before installing the SSL-certificate? Let’s look deeper into this question. SSL-requires a dedicated IP-address. SSL-certificate could only be installed on the separate IP-address. IP-addresses are usually offered by the service provider, from whom you are hosting the website. In…
Domain Validated SSL Certificates (short DV) – are certificates that have the lowest level of validation among commercial CA certificates. Right before the DV SSL certificate issuance, the CA will verify that the domain owner will approve a certificate issuance.…
You may want to use a self-signed SSL-certificate on your website. This will allow you to save some money, because you do not have to pay for the certificate issued by an approved Certification Authority. However, using self-signed SSL-certificates have some…
Verification of certificates based on an confirmation of email account ownership is the most common certificate validation mechanism used by certification authorities in case of ordering DV certificates. The purpose of validation is to ensure the authenticity of the certificate…
Security researchers working for the company Sucuri, have decided to revise the report, written back in 2012, dedicated to the API-call security. API calls must verify the integrity of such libraries as JSSE, OpenSSL and of GnuTLS, or transport libraries…
EV SSL-certificate – one of the most advanced security certificates, which offers 256-bit encryption, as well as the green address bar in the browser URL bar. The green line shows the name of the company that is the best proof…
This site is dedicated to SSL-certificates. You will learn what is an SSL certificate, how to issue and reissue it. FAQ SSL will be useful for both novices and pros. SSL Knowledgebase contains sections on validation, trust logo, vulnerabilities, SSL-certificates differences by type (Wildcard, EV, DV, etc.), as well as many other things.
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