On October 14(th) , 2025, the CA/B Forum, which establishes standards within the certificate industry, voted to reduce the lifetime of Code Signing Certificates from 39 months to 460 days. The changes ...

The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever ...

Novel malware is hard enough to detect these days, but malicious code signed with valid digital certificates is even harder to stop. Sporting SSL.com certificates made the malicious code look like ...

The CA/Browser Forum's decision to reduce SSL/TLS certificate lifespans to just 47 days by 2029 is set to fundamentally change how organizations manage digital trust. While the full impact will unfold ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

SSL.com was mis-issuing SSL certificates by wrongly interpreting email addresses submitted for verification, allowing attackers to potentially impersonate brands and conduct data theft. A flaw in ...

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 ...

Technology industry players have voted to reduce the maximum validity term of SSL/TLS certificates to 47 days by 2029, in a bid to enhance digital security. The CA/Browser Forum ballot result will ...

Members of the CA/Browser Forum have voted to slash cert lifespans from the current one year to 47 days, placing an added burden on enterprise IT staff who must ensure they are updated. In a move that ...