Certificate expiry stories
Automation vital as TLS certificate lifespans shrink
2 days ago
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TLS lifespans will shrink to 47 days by 2029, making manual renewals unworkable and turning certificate outages into routine disruption.
Microsoft patches zero-day, kills legacy Windows drivers
2 days ago
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Microsoft’s first 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes an exploited DWM zero-day, strips decades-old modem drivers and tackles Secure Boot risks.
Certificate expiry in enterprise IT: Putting an end to fear
Wed, 26th Jul 2023
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Certificates have become the stealth companion to our online world. But failing to manage them effectively can be more costly than a data breach.
DigiCert & ServiceNow team up to integrate certificate lifecycle management
Fri, 2nd Oct 2020
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DigiCert and ServiceNow are collaborating on a new way to bring certificate management within the ServiceNow platform.
DigiCert's QuoVadis acquisition extends PKI expertise in EU
Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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DigiCert has now officially completed its acquisition of QuoVadis Group from Swiss security firm WISeKey International.
DigiCert conquers Google's distrust of Symantec certs
Wed, 12th Dec 2018
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DigiCert has successfully restored trust for its Symantec security certificates after Google's automatic distrust.
Mozilla delays distrust of Symantec TLS certificates
Mon, 15th Oct 2018
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Mozilla has delayed its distrust of all Symantec security certificates – because so many businesses have failed to do anything about the problem.
What happens when encryption and security certificates go awry?
Tue, 27th Mar 2018
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have warned that compromised certificates in a PKI environment can lead to data breaches.
INTERVIEW: What Google’s decision to distrust Symantec certificates means
Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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Last year Chrome announced a formal plan to remove trust from Symantec-issued certificates - Venafi's Walter Goulet discusses the implications.
Malicious Reddit clone fooling users into giving away logins
Thu, 8th Feb 2018
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A simple typo is taking users to a seemingly secure Reddit clone that is actually stealing their login details - we have commentary from two experts.
LinkedIn’s outage blunder left users exposed and was ‘easily preventable’
Fri, 1st Dec 2017
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LinkedIn went down yesterday in countries across the world due to an SSL certificate expiry, leaving some users' data at risk with no encryption.