GlobalSign’s success as a root certificate authority this week was staggered. Certification Center was unable to maintain the usual protocols. The result was that many sites, both large and small, are faced with SSL-certificates’ problems. Some users are faced with…
Apple has exacerbated the deplorable situation of the WoSign, announcing that soon will withdraw confidence to its free intermediate SSL-certificates for MacOS. Apple’s decision was made public a few days after Mozilla has accused this Chinese CA in the issuing…
Scientists from the Japanese Tohoku University have created a new method of encrypting information transmitted in smart home systems, and machine to machine. Now the possibility of such encryption is limited – as soon as the power supply unit is…
Last week for CloudFlare was held under the motto of strengthen cryptographic connections to its global CDN-network. The company has opened to customers free access to innovations such as the TLS 1.3 protocol, Automatic HTTPS Rewrites (auto-redirect from HTTP to…
Due to the fact that for sending email messages SMTP standard does not use any encryption or authentication procedure, any message is available for viewing. Decisions on the client side, such as Secure MIME (S / MIME) or Pretty Good…
An applicant may receive a free SSL-certificate for the base domain, if he can confirm the control of a subdomain. Chinese certification authority (CA) WoSign, specializing in the issue of free SSL-certificates, mistakenly issued certificates for basic domains Github and…
Despite the fact that SSL is an encryption protocol, a security measure designed to hide and protect the traffic between the user and the web server, it cannot serve as a guarantor of security. Even with SSL available, experienced hackers…
Thanks to the SSL-certificate users around the world can exchange confidential information, secure in the knowledge that it is protected from malicious hackers, and safely use the Internet for communication in business and personal purposes, including for banking and shopping,…
SSL validation error occurs in the Opera web browser if your computer is unable to verify the certificate of the site. Perhaps this resource belongs to the fraudsters, and the browser warns you of the danger. But if the error…
Official trust seal attests that the website is authentic, and shall be issued by a third party – usually a company dedicated to safety. Clicking on the trust seal will display the box by a third party containing the details…
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