October 11, 2024 at 05:15PM The Certificate Authority (CA) market is essential for issuing and managing digital certificates that authenticate identities and secure communications. Driven by cybersecurity integration and blockchain technology, North America leads the market, while the Asia-Pacific region experiences rapid growth. Notable recent developments include partnerships and innovations among major CA providers. ### … Read more
August 8, 2024 at 04:42AM After losing trust from major browsers like Google and Mozilla, Entrust faces an arduous battle to regain industry confidence and reissue TLS certificates. Rival cert issuer Sectigo foresees a lengthy process with uncertain outcomes, reflecting a unique challenge in the CA world. Entrust’s partnership with SSL.com comes with pricing differences … Read more
July 31, 2024 at 10:28AM DigiCert will revoke SSL/TLS certificates due to an oversight in domain verification. The issue occurred when a random value was not prefixed with an underscore character, leading to improper domain control validation. Approximately 0.4% of certificates are affected, prompting impacted customers to replace their certificates. The incident may cause temporary … Read more
July 30, 2024 at 11:08AM DigiCert is warning of mass-revoking SSL/TLS certificates due to a bug in domain verification, affecting around 0.4% of certificates issued between August 2019 and June 2024. The bug, involving the absence of an underscore in CNAME records, could lead to security risks. DigiCert has taken corrective actions and impacted customers … Read more
June 29, 2024 at 11:45AM Google has announced it will block websites using certificates from Entrust in Chrome browser from November 1, 2024 due to compliance and security issues. TLS certificates from Entrust will not be trusted by Chrome versions 127 and higher. Users will see a warning for insecure connections, urging website operators to … Read more