Why Should the Education Sector Make CyberSecurity a Priority?

The coronavirus outbreak has struck havoc in a variety of industries, but particularly in education. Teachers are forced to rely on online teaching methods such as email, video conferencing, and collaboration technologies such as Google Meet and Zoom to ensure their students’ learning due to the protracted shutdown of many schools and college campuses. As …

How To Identify A Fake Website? Here Are Some Tips To Verify it.

On the web, the Internet scam is increasing and affecting both individuals and professionals. Internet scams range from fraudulent merchant sites, cloned sites, credit card fraud, and fake news. The web is the preferred playground for scammers of all kinds. In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, online scams have made a drastic rise. …

The fallout of the SolarWinds Hack, its impact and lessons learnt.

Russian Intelligence has been named as the suspected culprit behind the recent cyber attack targeting federal agencies. The attack resulted from Orion’s earlier compromise, a software developed by Solar Winds, a US-based company specializing in IT management software and remote monitoring services. The ‘SolarWinds hack,’ first acknowledged by FireEye earlier this month on December 8th, …

Introducing the Multi-year Plan to simplify SSL Certificate Management

Two years of validity period on TLS Certificates minimized to one year. Background: A few years ago, the validation period of TLS certificates was three years, and it was knocked down to two years. Now again, Apple has announced that Lifetime of TLS certificate has reduced to one year. At the CA/Browser (CA/B) Forum in …

DigiCert Completes Acquisition of Symantec’s Website Security and Related PKI Solutions

DigiCert acquired Symantec under the terms of the agreement, $950 million acquisition of Symantec Website Security and PKI solutions related to SSL/TLS certificates business received in upfront cash proceeds and approximately 30% stake in the common stock equity of DigiCert. DigiCert completes acquisition of Symantec’s certificate authority business on 31st October. The deal to acquire …

​​Symantec / Digicert – Google Reissue

Since announcing the acquisition, DigiCert has actively engaged with the security community to explore paths that address Google concerns about Symantec/Geotrust/Thawte/Rapidssl-issued certificates while balancing the SSL/TLS implementations currently deployed. Symantec-issued certificates impacted by browser timelines will need to be replaced to bring them under the new Digicert platform. These will be replaced at no cost …

CA Browser Forum Passes Ballot 193 – 825 day Certificate Lifetimes

The Certificate Authority Browser Forum, Also known as CA Browser Forum, is a voluntary consortium of Certificate Authorities such as Symantec, Digicert, Comodo, and tech Operating System makers such as Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, etc.. decide the fate of security on the internet. The CA Browser Forum purpose is to be proactive, and keep the internet …

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