Website owners take notice: In weeks, Mozilla products including its popular Firefox browser will stop trusting an unknown number of SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates ...

Certificates with RSA keys shorter than 2048 will soon no longer be supported by Windows, Microsoft has announced. “This deprecation focuses on ensuring that all RSA certificates used for TLS server ...

When Mozilla released Firefox 32 last week, the company removed several root certificates from the trust store for the browser. The move wasn’t because the certificates were fraudulent or the CAs that ...

With the scope of digital exploitation increasing, Microsoft came out with an advisory that it will no longer entertain digital certificates of less than 1024 bits strength. Microsoft issued a ...

Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab (my employer) have intercepted a new variant of Gpcode, a malicious virus that encrypts important files on an infected desktop and demands payment for a key to recover ...

A 307-digit composite Mersenne number has been broken down into primes, and 1024-bit RSA keys are next, according to encryption researchers. Researchers from the University of Lausanne, the University ...

Are there any SSL cert vendors that still allow you to purchase 1024 bit SSL certificates? We have an old legacy application that is in the process of being replaced that will only let us generate ...

In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and ...

It’s actually possible for entities with vast computing resources – such as the NSA and major national governments – to compromise commonly used Diffie-Hellman key exchange groups, so it’s time for ...

Website owners take notice: In weeks, Mozilla products including its popular Firefox browser will stop trusting an unknown number of SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates ...