Effect of withdrawal of confidence in the two CA – WoSign and StartCom – are unusual. RiskIQ, security vendor, has estimated that about 760,000 sites using SSL / TLS certificates issued by StartCom or WoSign. “I am sure that the…
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Google refused to trust certificates WoSign and StartCom
Following a similar decision taken by Mozilla and Apple, Google decided to abandon the new digital certificates issued by the two certification authorities – WoSign and StartCom. The reason is that these CAs are breaking the rules and industry best…
Posted in CA, Validation, Vulnerabilities Tagged with: chrome, chrome 56, draft, google, startcom, trust, trust ca, trust startcom, trust wosign, wosign
Mozilla bans Chinese WoSign – Firefox no longer trusts their SSL-certificates
Starting in January, any site that uses the new certificate from the Chinese CA WoSign will have a problem with Firefox users. The Mozilla, the company that is responsible for the creation of Firefox, announced that it will block all…
Apple denied a certificate trust of WoSign
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…
Posted in CA, Vulnerabilities, What is an SSL-Certificate Tagged with: apple wosign, certificate trust, draft, startcom, wosign
Chinese CA issued SSL-certificate for Github domain to simple user
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…
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