Google Chrome 57 Browser Update Patches 'High' Severity Flaws

Google released an updated version of its Chrome browser on Thursday to fix nine high-severity vulnerabilities that if exploited could allow adversaries to take control of targeted systems. As part of the update, Google thanked nearly two dozen bug hunters with bug bounty payments totaling $38,00...

Apple To Block WoSign Intermediate Certificates

Apple weighed in on the ongoing WoSign fiasco over the weekend, saying it would soon distrust certificates issued by the Chinese Certificate Authority’s Free SSL Certificate G2 intermediate CA on macOS. Apple’s decision comes several days after Mozilla accused the CA of backdating SHA-1...

Mozilla Wants to Drop WoSign as Trusted CA

Mozilla has accused a Chinese Certificate Authority of back-dating SHA-1 certificates to get around restrictions barring deprecated certs from being trusted, and is ready to ban the CA for one year. The back-dating is just one of many violations derived after a lengthy investigation of WoSign and...

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Security update for the MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr (important)

This update to MozillaFirefox fixes several security issues and bugs. Mozilla Firefox was updated to 44.0. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.21 Mozilla NSPR was updated to 4.11. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: CVE-2016-1930/CVE-2016-1931: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards boo963633...

Google SHA-1 Deprecation

Google has announced its timeline for deprecating SHA-1 certificates, despite concerns expressed recently that sunsetting the broken encryption hashing algorithm will disconnect millions from the Internet. SHA-1’s demise has been accelerated in recent months since researchers published a paper...