VeriSign, the leading provider of certificates, agreed that certificate checking practices need improvement and placed the responsibility on browser makers. "It's important to note that there's a ...

Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an effective security measure, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers. The researchers, who plan to present their findings on 14 August at ...

Certificates are a key part of the digital transaction value chain, and a key way both to secure transactions, and to establish trust. But all browser providers are end of life-ing a set of ...

Edge and other web browsers use your PC’s date and time in order to verify whether or not the site’s SSL certificate is expired. If the date and time are incorrectly configured on your PC, you ...

Most browsers include a number of “root certificates” in them by default. Such credentials act as blanket permissions to accept all the certificates from a CA. For example, in the recent ...

The new policy affects sites that haven't moved to SHA-2 signed certificates. Apple dropped support for SHA-1 in March with macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and iOS 10.3. Browser makers and certificate ...

A certificate for your Internet browser, such as Firefox, adds a layer of security to your business communications. One of the most common uses for a certificate is to act as a form of identification.

Web browsers automatically trust certificates issued by Symantec and companies like it, but Google has begun steadily scaling back the level of trust in its Chrome browser for older certificates ...

Certificate Authority (CA) StartCom announced last week, on Friday, its intention to cease operations by 2018, and completely shut down its certificate infrastructure by 2020.

Google’s Chrome 56 browser will no longer trust certificates that were issued by either WoSign or StartCom issued after Oct. 21, 2016.

8 Browsers And Unsigned Certificates – Internet Explorer 7: Verbose Warning Internet Explorer 7 has one verbose warning page for SSL pages with self-signed certificates.

Digital certificates provide a means to authenticate individuals and secure communications on campus. CREN now offers an easy way for institutions to learn about and deploy this powerful technology.