Certificate expiry stories

DigiCert & ServiceNow team up to integrate certificate lifecycle management
Fri, 2nd Oct 2020
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cybersecurity
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servicenow
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digicert
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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mergers and acquisitions
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digicert
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certification
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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quantum computing
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google
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symantec
“This could have been an extremely disruptive event to online commerce," comments DigiCert CEO John Merrill.

Mozilla delays distrust of Symantec TLS certificates
Mon, 15th Oct 2018
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symantec
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mozilla
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certificate expiry
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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encryption
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key management
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university
"This case is the digital equivalent of leaving a written secret on a desk in a public area where people walk by and could potentially copy it."

INTERVIEW: What Google’s decision to distrust Symantec certificates means
Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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cybersecurity
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devops
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chrome
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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cybersecurity
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venafi
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ssl
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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encryption
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cybersecurity
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breach prevention
LinkedIn went down yesterday in countries across the world due to an SSL certificate expiry, leaving some users' data at risk with no encryption.