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These days, a large number of organizations depend on digital certificates to protect their assets. However, the large number of incidents reported over the past months has shown that issuing and managing them is not an easy task, especially if the problem is not approached properly.
According to a GlobalSign study... |
27 March 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Leading global certificate authorities – including Symantec, Trend Micro, GlobalSign, Go Daddy, Comodo, DigiCert and Entrust – have teamed up to create the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC). The newly formed group is aimed at improving the understanding of critical policies and the potential ... |
15 February 2013
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Most major browser vendors – including Mozilla, Microsoft and Google – are rushing to block the certificates issued by Turkish certificate authority TURKTRUST. The company admitted that it erroneously issued intermediate certificates instead of normal site certificates back in August 2011.
The main conce... |
4 January 2013
02:56 GMT |
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With the release of a study entitled “Preparing for and Responding to Certificate Authority Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance," the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Venafi are aiming to alert organizations to the risks posed by a security breach that affects certificate aut... |
10 August 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Although it claimed that customers were not at risk because of the vulnerability reported by members of the Tor Project, Cyberoam rushed to release a hotfix that would forcefully generate unique CA certificates for each deep packet inspection (DPI) device. Initially, the network security company stated that the priv... |
10 July 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Last week, Tor Project identified what seemed to be a fake torproject.org digital certificate. However, further analysis uncovered the existence of a vulnerability in Cyberoam Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices, caused by the fact that these appliances shared the same CA (Certificate Authority) certificate.
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4 July 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Enterprise key and certificate management solutions provider Venafi has performed an analysis of 450 of the companies present in the Forbes Global 2000 annual ranking. The results of the scans revealed that, on average, around 20% of these firms are susceptible to attacks that leverage malware such as Flame, Duqu or ... |
4 July 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Last year, when the world found out that the DigiNotar had been hacked, it was clear that the Dutch government would be highly affected, mainly because it procured most of its digital certificates from the company. It turns out that the damage caused by the certificate authority to state institutions rises up to $11.... |
10 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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GlobalSign representatives admitted that an open source software that was left unpatched on one of their servers allowed cybercriminals to gain access to their systems and steal a digital certificate.
A company executive told ZDNet that the application had not been updated because it wasn’t “included in... |
26 April 2012
10:17 GMT |
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Last week Kaspersky experts came across a piece of malware that was signed with a stolen digital certificate in order to avoid detection. If the security experts concentrated on the malware itself, other companies such as Venafi, the inventor of enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, focused th... |
25 March 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Software giant CA Technologies, originally known as Computer Associates, has sold its antivirus unit to venture capital firm Updata Partners which will operate it as a standalone company.The new company will be provisionally called Total Defense, Inc, after CA's primary antivirus product, and will be established... |
17 May 2011
13:46 GMT |
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Ranked as the top botnet threat by InfoWorld this summer, the atrocious Zeus botnet was discovered to have infiltrated Amazons EC2's cloud computing service. This comes as the first successful (if we can say that) botnet infiltration in one of Amazon's cloud-based services, renowned for their safety and per... |
10 December 2009
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After an engine signature update from 31.6.6672 to 33.3.7051, the CA eTrust anti-virus went completely mad and started to display numerous false positive infections with StdWin32. This was later fixed by CA with an emergency update, 34.0.6674, and written instructions on the company's customer support web page.A... |
13 August 2009
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According to a recently released study conducted by The Strategic Counsel and sponsored by CA, company that specializes in providing IT management software solutions, while external security threats are going down, insider related ones are increasing. In the last year alone, consumer discontent in regard to data loss... |
17 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Some people say hackers are working 24 hours a day and, sometimes, I really tend to believe it. For a hacker, compromising the site of a software company or a security vendor is like talking to God for a Christian, so they are really struggling to reach their goal. This time, they somehow managed to do it because som... |
7 January 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Computer Associates announced today they're donating the huge number of 225,000 licenses of their brand new 2008 anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Spam software to the Boys & Girls Club of America (BGCA). This is a great initiative! It's not every day you hear about a cyber-security company doing such a th... |
11 October 2007
10:59 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale giant Yahoo signed a deal with CA, a provider of several security utilities that can make the Yahoo Toolbar product more safe to use against all kinds of Internet threats. The new browser add-on will bring several utilities to all the consumers such as desktop search, email alerts, instant access to Yah... |
26 July 2007
05:47 GMT |
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Windows Vista hit the shelves on January 30, 2007, with one of the major issues surrounding the operating system being the lack of support. Recently, Eugene Kaspersky, the head of virus research at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the operating system will suffer in terms of protection due to the fact that the security in... |
8 May 2007
05:35 GMT |
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