DigiCert to Revoke 83,000+ SSL Certificates Due to Domain Validation Oversight

Certificate authority CA DigiCert has warned that it will be revoking a subset of SSL/TLS certificates within 24 hours due to an oversight with how it verified if a digital certificate is issued to the rightful owner of a domain. The company said it will be taking the step of revoking certificate...

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...