Comodo's revelation yesterday that nine SSL certificates had been issued for fraudulent websites posing as domains for high-profile sites serves as a wake-up call for a certificate process that ...

DEFCON17 -- LAS VEGAS -- It's not just the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) that contains major security flaws: A researcher here showed how several certificate authorities (CAs) themselves are vulnerable ...

GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest domain registrars and certificate authorities, revoked almost 9,000 SSL certificates this week after it learned that its domain validation system has had a serious ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

SSL.com was mis-issuing SSL certificates by wrongly interpreting email addresses submitted for verification, allowing attackers to potentially impersonate brands and conduct data theft. A flaw in ...

GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest domain registrars and certificate authorities, revoked almost 9,000 SSL certificates this week after it learned that its domain validation system has had a serious ...

A bug in the CA's domain validation system for the past five months could have allowed attackers to obtain certificates without authorization GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest domain registrars and ...