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CAB Forum bans WHOIS, Legal Opinions for Domain Validation
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- Written by SNSWS
- Category: SSL Industry News
On August 1, a couple of new changes to the baseline requirements that govern the issuance of digital certificates went into effect. Certificate Authorities are no longer allowed to use methods #1 and #5 from section 3.2.2.4 to validate domain ownership. Or, put in laymen’s terms, CAs will no longer be allowed to use WHOIS look ups and legal opinion letters to validate ownership of a domain.
Firefox 58: Mozilla to Remove WoSign and StartCom Roots
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- Written by Patrick Nohe
- Category: SSL Industry News
What started in Firefox 51 ends in 58 as Mozilla removes a pair of disabled roots:
The decline of WoSign and StartCom has been one of the bigger stories in the SSL industry over the past year or so, and his January will likely mark the final chapter.
Cybersecurity Practice Guide, Publication 1800-9: "Access Rights Management for the Financial Services Sector"
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- Written by SNSWS
- Category: SSL News
Today's threat landscape has created ever-increasing challenges for financial services companies as they work to protect important financial assets and customer data. Financial services companies are under a high and sustained level of attack, in some instances experiencing a direct loss.
Enabling SSL Certificate Details on Chrome 60 solved
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- Written by Vincent Lynch - SSL Store
- Category: SSL News
Click the Padlock Icon To View Certificates "It's Back" and Better Than Ever
One of the most controversial changes Chrome made was moving the link for the SSL Certificate Viewer from the Page Information menu (that little dropdown when you click the padlock icon) to Developer Tools.
Browsers have spoken: encrypt every website with SSL/TLS or get left behind
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- Written by SSL Matters
- Category: SSL Solutions
Thankfully, the browser community is taking it upon themselves to turn the tables in this war on valuable information. In the past, SSL certificates were only thought necessary for ecommerce websites or other sites that collected sensitive user information.
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