After only a year with a paid authority, I gladly switched to the free and open certificate authority that EFF helped stand up. I haven’t minded having to enter multiple alternative names on my certificate every time I renew (which is evert 90 days, a security feature of Let’s Encrypt.) Wildcards make an already fantastic resource that much better. Read More …
Tag: SSL
Security Alerts for Week Ending 8/8/2010
- Android rootkit released at Defcon
- Highlights from Black Hat and Defcon
- Mozilla finds flaw in Black Hat video stream
- Researchers find GBs of stolen data in a botnet
- Useful security extension may make it into Linux kernel
- Patch for critical Windows flaw available
- Antivirus vendors mostly ignore Windows security features
- Attackers can use XSS and Google to find a user’s physical location
- New iPhone vulnerability in its PDF viewer
- Vulnerability disclosure initiative puts pressure on vendors
- 10K node botnet taken down in the UK
- Apple prepares iOS fix
- EFF project to assess genuine security of SSL certificates around the web
Via Hacker News. - Facebook adds photo based security check
- Adobe readies emergency fix for critical PDF Reader security hole
- Private browsing mode doesn’t always work as well as advertised
- Scammy Firefox beta 4 download used to spread a trojan
- Hoax Facebook virus stirs more trouble than a real one
- Criticisms of security in IPv6
- New Windows 7 zero day flaw
- Memcached opens accidental security hole
- Companies use browser history to bypass privacy
HT walkerh.