StartCom has announced it will stop issuing new certificates at the end of 2017, as the business is set for termination in 2020. The Chinese certificate authority said it was unable to recover from ...

The top management of StartCom and WoSign will be replaced and the two certificate authorities will undergo audits after browser vendors discovered that they mis-issued many digital certificates, ...

Following similar decisions by Mozilla and Apple, Google plans to reject new digital certificates issued by two certificate authorities because they violated industry rules and best practices. The ban ...

Google has warned that all certificates issued by Chinese company WoSign and subsidiary StartCom will be distrusted with the release of Chrome 61. According to a Google Groups post published by Chrome ...

Google has put websites signed with WoSign/StartCom SSL certificates on notice that it will no longer trust certs from the Chinese CA starting in Chrome 61. Websites that are still using digital ...

Initially, Google only revoked trust for certificates issued after October 21, 2016. But over the past six months, Google has walked that revocation back further, only whitelisting certificates for ...

Based on the boasts of "Comodohacker," he's compromised six certificate authorities (CAs) this year, including Comodo in March and DigiNotar in July. He's also claimed to have exploited at least four ...

Controversial Chinese certificate authority (CA) StartCom has decided to close, after several major browser makers lost confidence in the company. Over the past year, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and ...

Certificate Authority (CA) StartCom announced last week, on Friday, its intention to cease operations by 2018, and completely shut down its certificate infrastructure by 2020. The decision came after ...

The top management of StartCom and WoSign will be replaced and the two certificate authorities will undergo audits after browser vendors discovered that they mis-issued many digital certificates, ...

Google has joined Mozilla and Apple and will distrust WoSign and StartCom certificates beginning in 2017. That leaves Microsoft as the only major browser holdout. Tens of thousands of desktops, ...