Komodia Certificate Manipulation Enabled Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

The shoddy state of SSL certificate validation on the Internet again floated to the surface, this time by the Superfish mess, which continues to get worse. The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday released a report based on data scoured from the Decentralized SSL Observatory which it...

HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 Released

The EFF has released an updated version of its popular HTTPS Everywhere browser plugin, which enables users to automatically connect over HTTPS to many sites. The newest version of the extension now supports more than 1,500 sites. The EFF developed HTTPS Everywhere in collaboration with The Tor...

EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Plugin Detects Bad Certs, Security Flaws

The EFF has released a new version of its HTTPS Everywhere browser extension, and users can now turn on a feature that will send the EFF copies of digital certificates that the browser encounters, allowing the organization to look for flawed, fake or expired certificates. The new capability is...

EFF Data Shows Four CAs Compromised Since June

The EFF, through the use of its SSL Observatory, has taken a look at the data from certificate revocation lists for SSL certificates in recent months, and found that there were four separate CAs compromised in the last four months. The data that the EFF looked at was a summary of the reasons that...

The Problem of Issuing Certs For Unqualified Names

The recent attack on Comodo and several of its associated registration authorities has spurred quite a bit of re-examination of the way that the Web’s certificate authority infrastructure works–or doesn’t. One interesting result of this work is that the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...