Symantec's cyber security team's assistance in uncovering a prolific cyber-gangs network has lead to the arrest of three criminals responsible for $35 million stolen from victims. Full story HERE.
“Ticketbleed” (so named for a similarity to the notorious 2014 Heartbleed) is specific to F5's Big-IP appliances and can strike when virtual servers running on those boxes are configured with a Client SSL profile that has the non-default Session Tickets option.... Read more HERE
Google has launched its own root Certificate Authority (CA), which will allow the company to issue digital certificates for its own products and not have to depend on third-party CAs in its quest to implement HTTPS across everything Google. Read the full article HERE.
Looking back on 2016, we find that we have made great progress in the realm of internet security. Finally, the use of HTTPS has surpassed the use of HTTP, we saw the end of public-trusted SHA-1 SSL/TLS certificates, and it was revealed that more transparency should be considered in regard to a number of certification authorities. Fortunately, we ... Read More »
