August 14, 2024 at 03:09PM DigiCert, backed by Clearlake, Crosspoint, and TA, will acquire Vercara from Golden Gate Capital and GIC. The acquisition will expand DigiCert’s capabilities to protect organizations from cyberattacks. The acquisition aims to provide customers with unified DNS and certificate management experience, enhancing digital trust. The acquisition is expected to close this … Read more
August 1, 2024 at 05:48AM DigiCert is revoking thousands of certificates due to a domain validation issue. Despite notifying customers and working to delay revocations for critical services, all impacted certificates must be revoked by August 3, 2024. Some customers have pursued legal action, while experts emphasize the security significance of addressing this noncompliance promptly. … Read more
July 31, 2024 at 06:36AM DigiCert is revoking TLS certificates due to a domain validation issue, affecting websites, applications, and services. The company needs to revoke certificates within 24 hours due to strict CA/Browser Forum rules. The issue was related to validating domain ownership using a DNS CNAME record. Roughly 0.4% of domain validations were … Read more
July 30, 2024 at 09:41PM DigiCert has identified a 5-year-old software error in its backend, prompting the revocation of SSL/TLS certificates for about 0.4% of domains it validates. Customers must replace these certificates within 24 hours due to a bug in validation, whereby an underscore was not added to challenge values. DigiCert is reissuing certificates … Read more