Google wants to reduce the lifespan of SSL certificates (used to secure HTTPS encrypted traffic) from the current two years to just over a year. The proposal was made by Ryan Sleevi, Google's ...

In a time when digital frauds and scams are rising, visiting a website without an SSL certificate doesn't feel right. The green padlock icon toward the left of the URL isn't just another element ...

Bogus digital certificates have been popping up here and there over time as malware authors rely on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) more and more to sneak past intrusion detection and protection systems ...

Software bugs and misinterpretations of industry standards are at the heart of most cases of incorrectly-issued SSL certificates -- accounting for 42% of all incidents --, a recent academic study ...

Disadvantages of SSL. The Secure Sockets Layer protocol for secure Web transfers was first developed by Netscape in 1994. Since then, it has a ubiquitous tool for setting up encrypted ...

IT professionals getting their feet wet in the domain/SSL arena can benefit from a registrar’s resources for requesting, ordering and managing SSLs. Software products provided by registrars or ...

The new SSL Black List is a public list of certificates associated with a variety of malicious operations, including botnets, malware campaigns and banking Trojans.

However, if Chrome is unable to verify the authenticity certificate of that website that is when ERR_BAD_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT error occurs and Google Chrome browser failed to open that website.

Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third-party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce "trusted ...

At first glance, the vulnerability doesn’t seem too bad: after all, in order to have those bad SSL certificates sent to you, the attacker needs control of the Wi-Fi network. So just don’t ...