In a government shutdown, everything deemed non-essential stops. As we found out, renewing the certificates on its websites is considered non-essential. Several government sites are currently inaccessible or blocked by most browsers after their HTTPS certificate expired. With nobody available to renew them during the government shutdown, these sites are kicking back warning errors. According […]
View More Some US government websites won’t load after HTTPS certificates expire during shutdownCategory: key management
With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to break
A lot of secure sites are set to grind to a halt with security error messages in the next version of Google Chrome, after the browser will drop trust for a major HTTPS certificate provider following a series of security incidents. Chrome 70 is expected to be released on or around October 16, when the […]
View More With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to breakCloudflare’s new ‘one-click’ DNSSEC setup will make it far more difficult to spoof websites
Bad news first: the internet is broken for a while. The good news is that Cloudflare thinks it can make it slightly less broken. With “the click of one button,” the networking giant said Tuesday, its users can now switch on DNSSEC in their dashboard. In doing so, Cloudflare hopes it removes a major pain-point […]
View More Cloudflare’s new ‘one-click’ DNSSEC setup will make it far more difficult to spoof websites