Neowin News Feed for: Certificates

'Game-changing' Windows 11 feature broken for three months due to expired certificate

Taras Buria — Tue, 02 May 2023 11:56:01 +0000

In 2021, Panos Panay called Windows 11's Spotify integration a "game-changing" productivity feature. Unfortunately, it stopped working over three months ago, and Microsoft does not seem to care. Read more...

Microsoft Azure CLX programme adds Data and AI skills courses with certificates

Paul Hill — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced three new Azure CLX programme tracks that are focused on Data and AI skills. You'll earn certificates and a 50 per cent discount off the Microsoft Azure Certification Exam. Read more...

Apple starts taking countermeasures against new macOS malware strain

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:56:01 +0000

Recently, a mysterious new macOS malware was spotted in the wild which has infected nearly 30,000 Intel and M1 Macs. Apple is now deploying countermeasures to mitigate the potential threat. Read more...

Firefox 77 launches bringing Pocket integration to the UK

Paul Hill — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:34:01 +0000

Mozilla has launched Firefox 77, it's not a big update but for those in the UK it brings Pocket recommendations to the new tab page. Another noteworthy change is the new page for viewing certificates. Read more...

Let's Encrypt to revoke certain certificates on March 4

Paul Hill — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:02:03 +0000

Some Let's Encrypt users have to renew their certificates after a CAA rechecking bug was discovered. Let's Encrypt will start revoking affected certificates beginning 00:00 UTC March 4. Read more...

Mozilla releases Firefox 66.0.4 which re-enables user extensions after muck-up

Paul Hill — Mon, 06 May 2019 02:14:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 66.0.4 which mitigates many, but not all, of the problems surrounding user extensions being remotely disabled. It launched the update now to limit business disruption. Read more...

Apple T2 Security Chip removes Linux support from some newer Macs [Update]

Paul Hill — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:18:01 +0000

Documentation for the Apple T2 Security Chip, a component found in the new Mac Mini among other devices, reveals that Linux will not be able to be installed due to certificate incompatibility. Read more...

Microsoft to remove certificates issued by Chinese companies WoSign and StartCom

Stergios Georgopoulos — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:16:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will stop trusting certificates issued by Chinese Certificate Authorities WoSign and StartCom, which have failed to maintain proper security standards. Read more...

Let's Encrypt will introduce wildcard certificates in January 2018

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:02:01 +0000

Let's Encrypt has announced that wildcards will be introduced from January 2018. The announcement was made this early because it needs to raise money in the summer fundraiser to pay for development. Read more...

Let's Encrypt has now issued over 10 million certificates

Paul Hill — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 01:50:01 +0000

Let's Encrypt has passed yet another milestone in under five months since it launched. The project has now issued 10 million certificates in total, with about 5.3 million of them still unexpired. Read more...

Let's Encrypt passes 5 million issued certificates

Paul Hill — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 04:06:01 +0000

The Let's Encrypt project reports that it has now issued over 5 million certificates. The Let's Encrypt project wants site owners to be able to deploy HTTPS more easily, for a secure internet. Read more...

Let's Encrypt being abused, gets used in malvertising attacks says Trend Micro

Paul Hill — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:08:01 +0000

Trend Micro has detected a malvertising campaign against web users in Japan. It turns out that the ads were using a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt. The ads led to sites which would infect PCs. Read more...

DigiNotar fallout: Adobe to release patches

James Woodfin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:50:30 +0000

DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority, was hacked recently, generating fake security certificates for hundreds of websites. Adobe has a solution: Patch DigiNotar out. Read more...

Comodo SSL certificates compromised

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:54:59 +0000

Whenever you visit a secure website (HTTPS) your browser verifies that site is properly secured based on the sites certificate. If the site doesn't have a valid certificate, most browsers make it pretty clear that... Read more...

14% of SSL certificates use MD5

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:42:24 +0000

As reported last week, about the possible MD5 SSL certificate bring broken, a recent survey was taken that shows 14% of the world still uses the MD5 algorithm to secure their SSL certificates. The attack... Read more...

MS sues resellers for counterfeit certificates

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:30:14 +0000

Microsoft is taking action against US resellers who are using dodgy Certificates of Authenticity (COA) to pass off counterfeit software as the real deal. Eight companies are facing legal action after a year-long investigation by... Read more...

Flaws in Mozilla's Handling of Security Certificates Fixed

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:43:29 +0000

Thanks supernova_00 for informing me about News.com mistake. Always on top of things The Mozilla Foundation released a patch yesterday for two security bugs, but the updated end-user releases of Mozilla products are not... Read more...