Published on: 2025-04-23 18:09:22
Why 47 Days? 47 days might seem like an arbitrary number, but it’s a simple cascade: 200 days = 6 maximal month (184 days) + 1/2 30-day month (15 days) + 1 day wiggle room 100 days = 3 maximal month (92 days) + ~1/4 30-day month (7 days) + 1 day wiggle room 47 days = 1 maximal month (31 days) + 1/2 30-day month (15 days) + 1 day wiggle room Apple’s justification for the change In the ballot, Apple makes many arguments in favor of the moves, one of which is most worth calling out. They stat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 07:49:35
The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029. The CA/Browser Forum is a group of certificate authorities (CAs) and software vendors, including browser developers, working together to establish and maintain security standards for digital certificates used in Internet communications. Its members include major CAs like DigiCert and GlobalSign, as well as browser vendors suc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 04:56:55
The Chrome Root Program launched in 2022 as part of Google’s ongoing commitment to upholding secure and reliable network connections in Chrome. We previously described how the Chrome Root Program keeps users safe, and described how the program is focused on promoting technologies and practices that strengthen the underlying security assurances provided by Transport Layer Security (TLS). Many of these initiatives are described on our forward looking, public roadmap named “Moving Forward, Together
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 07:08:00
The big picture: Chrome is by far the most popular browser across various platforms and device types, with a market share of over 66 percent. Needless to say, every change Google makes to its proprietary browser inevitably influences all major players in the web ecosystem. Google recently announced two major initiatives aimed at enhancing web security, with the ultimate goal of making encryption and certificate management more reliable and resilient against cybercrime. These new features are pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 20:30:04
Cybercriminals are abusing Microsoft's Trusted Signing platform to code-sign malware executables with short-lived three-day certificates. Threat actors have long sought after code-signing certificates as they can be used to sign malware to appear like they are from a legitimate company. Signed malware also has the advantage of potentially bypassing security filters that would normally block unsigned executables, or at least treat them with less suspicion. The holy grail for threat actors is t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 21:30:04
Cybercriminals are abusing Microsoft's Trusted Signing platform to code-sign malware executables with short-lived three-day certificates. Threat actors have long sought after code-signing certificates as they can be used to sign malware to appear like they are from a legitimate company. Signed malware also has the advantage of potentially bypassing security filters that would normally block unsigned executables, or at least treat them with less suspicion. The holy grail for threat actors is t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 15:28:01
A “distrust” is when a certification authority (CA) that issues HTTPS certificates to websites is removed from a root store because it is no longer trusted to issue certificates. This means certificates issued by that CA will be treated as invalid, likely causing certificate error interstitials in any browser that distrusted the CA. Distrusts can happen for security reasons, compliance reasons, or simply due to a lack of trust in the operators. In the past, the complexity and user impact of dist
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