CA Tied to Chinese Registrar Issued Unauthorized Google Certificates

Google security engineers, investigating fraudulent certificates issued for several of the company’s domains, discovered that a Chinese certificate authority was using an intermediate CA, MCS Holdings, that issued the unauthorized Google certificates, and could have issued certificates for...

Microsoft Warns Fraudulent Certificate Could Lead to MiTM Attacks

Microsoft has blacklisted a phony SSL certificate that’s been making the rounds and is in the process of warning the general public that the certificate could be leveraged to stage man-in-the-middle attacks. In a security advisory published yesterday the company stressed that an improper...

Firefox 37 to Include New OneCRL Certificate Blocklist

The next version of Mozilla Firefox will include a new certificate revocation list that will speed up and streamline the process of revoking intermediate certificates trusted by the browser. The new feature, known as OneCRL, is meant as a replacement for the old OCSP online certificate status...