Below we have a collection of Blog posts written by our in-house SSL/TLS and Security Experts, and also a collection of guest posters we invite every so often. In addition, you can find guides for installation and configurations, the best ways to secure your systems, fixes to common problems or updates to the industry.
At the moment you can purchase a 1,2 or 3 year term for new and renewal SSL Certificates. This will soon be changing with the CAB Forum Ballot 193. The CAB Forum is the governing body that sets many rules and guidelines for the issuance of SSL Certificates. It is comprised of a group of leading individuals from Certificate Authorities and Browsers. On March 1st, 2017 they released the document… [read more →]
As of October 31st 2017 DigiCert completed the acquisition of Symantec’s Certificate Authority business. This also includes GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL. This acquisition came about after google announced they will be distrusting Symantec Certificates ( only certificates issued prior to December 1st 2017 ) due to questionable website authentication certificates issued by Symantec Corporation’s PKI… [read more →]
To help web users browse websites more safely, Google Chrome displays a lock icon in the address bar to indicate a website secured by an SSL Certificate ( HTTPS ). Google Chrome had not shown HTTP connections as non-secure until January 2017; This is when Google started to push updates to their chrome browser to better indicated to their users if a website is secure or not. If a web page collects… [read more →]
Wordpress is one of the most popular website platform for creating websites and blogs. The reason for its popularity is obviously is the ease of use, maintaining it and also updating content to it. Every popular software, becomes a target of criminals automatically due to widespread use of it and many users actually using it. Brute password discovery and PHP MySql vulnerabilities is often the … [read more →]
As we already know, SSL/TLS couples the best parts of asymmetric and symmetric cryptography to provide a robust mechanism for securing data-in-flight. However, because the key exchange for the symmetric portion of the transaction occurs over the secure channel forged with your public key, whomever holds your private key can reliably decrypt all data intended for your consumption. What happens… [read more →]
