Looking Back at 2015 A number of new tactics proved 2015 was no exception to an active year defending against ever increasing security issues. Vendors found new and creative way…
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This blog was originally posted on staysafeonline.org on June 29, 2015. Online payments can be made in a variety of ways, but majority of the online financial transactions are d…
OpenSSL has announced a high severity vulnerability, CVE 2015 1793 which will require an upgrade to some OpenSSL installations. The vulnerability was discovered by Google person…
Another flaw has been found in the basic encryption algorithms that secure the Internet. This flaw, named the Logjam attack by its discoverers (researchers from various universi…
Announcement
Since we last [wrote about SSL/TLS performance][1], there has been a lot of activity in the IETF HTTP Working Group, resulting in the February announcement that the next version…
Only 2 Percent Proceed Past “Untrusted Connection” Message San Francisco – April 13, 2015 – The CA Security Council (CASC), an advocacy group committed to the advancement of the…
As we have stated previously, website owners have a concern that an attacker can have a certificate issued for their domain name. We now have two systems which will help monitor…
Once again Browsers and Certificate Authorities are in the news over the reported mis issuance of an SSL server certificate to a google.com domain. Discovered by Google most lik…
It was [recently disclosed][1] that Gogo, a provider of Wi Fi Internet services on commercial aircraft, has been issuing spoofed SSL certificates for Google sites that were view…
Looking Back at 2014 End of 1024 Bit Security In 2014, the SSL industry moved to issuing a minimum security of 2048 bit RSA certificates. Keys smaller than 2048 are no longer al…
