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” ...
A reader reported receiving a message in Google Search Console about a self-signed SSL certificate. Google has been sending warnings about this for years. A self-signed SSL certificate is one that is ...
Dozens of self-signed SSL certificates created to impersonate banking, e-commerce and social networking websites have been found on the Web. The certificates don’t pose a big threat to browser users, ...
When are self-signed certificates acceptable for businesses? Your email has been sent Self-signed SSL certificates are a handy tool to have at your fingertips, but using them for the wrong purpose ...
GlobalSign suspended sales of its SSL certificates after ComodoHacker, the hacker who compromised DigiNotar in June, claimed last week to compromise four other CAs, including GlobalSign. CAs such as ...
The majority of certificate outages don’t begin with a breach alert. They are silent at first. One day, a browser warning ...
On October 14th, 2025, the CA/B Forum, which establishes standards within the certificate industry, voted to reduce the lifetime of Code Signing Certificates from 39 months to 460 days. The changes ...
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Vincent Danen shows you how to add a Certificate Authority's root certificate on an OS X system, allowing any OS X service that uses SSL and the OS X keychain to trust any certificates issued by the ...