What is Ransomware? Ransomware is malware that employs encryption to hold a victim's information at ransom. A user or organization's critical data is encrypted so that they cannot access files, databases, or applications. A ransom is then demanded to provide access. What makes a company vulnerable to an attack? All ...

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Google Chrome 68 is here and as promised, the Chrome Browser is now marking HTTP as “Not secure” . We first blogged about this in March of 2018 and the time is now to make sure that all web sites are published using always-on HTTPS. This development matters greatly to ...

Apple has announced that it is deprecating trust for Symantec roots starting in summer of 2018 . Apart from its timing, this program is very similar to that taken by the Chrome and Firefox browsers. In the summer (exact date not specified) Apple will distrust TLS/SSL certificates on all public ...

Firefox is set to follow a similar deprecation schedule for GeoTrust and other Symantec certificates. Read on to learn more.

In 2015 the PCI Security Standards Council set a June 30, 2018 deadline for entities accepting credit card payments to deprecate support for all versions of SSL/TLS prior to TLS 1.1 . The reasons for this requirement are a variety of security vulnerabilities (including certain flavors of man-in-the-middle and downgrade ...

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a broad-reaching regulation meant to protect the private data of Europeans in personal systems. The 99-article regulation is very long and covers a broad variety of topics. Announced in 2017, GDPR will go into effect as a requirement on May 25, 2018. GDPR applies ...

If you're reading this blog post it means you have seen our newly updated GeoCerts.com site. It's our biggest site overhaul in more than a decade, and we designed the site in direct response to feedback from our excellent community of customers, resellers, and site visitors. Some of the main ...

Google recently announced that the Chrome 68 release, scheduled for June 2018, will mark all sites not protected by SSL as “Not secure.” According to Google any HTTP page will be treated as shown. This development matters greatly to just about every commercial web site in production for several reasons: ...

Right now there is a bit of a kerfuffle in Certificate World over the mass revocation of roughly 23,000 compromised certificates after the CEO of an SSL reseller attached their private keys to an email. There is a sometimes nuanced, sometimes spirited discussion of the whole thing on a Mozilla ...

What is Certificate Transparency? Certificate Transparency (CT) is an open standard that allows the public to monitor the certificates issued by participating CAs. How it works in a nutshell is to be CT-compliant a CA must add new certificates to a publicly available log that anyone can access to see ...