A Digital Signature is a form of online encryption that ensures a message does not have its contents altered or tampered with during transit. It is the most secure and advanced form of electronic signature available. When your server digitally signs information it sends, it adds a one-way hash using the public and private key pair. This means that […]
Cyber Security
SSL & TLS – what’s the difference?
Here at Trustico, we are often asked by our customers if we offer TLS certificates, as our website only advertises ‘SSL certificates’. This is a completely reasonable question for those not well-versed in cryptographic protocols. After all, if your web host asks you for a TLS certificate and you see search results mostly for SSL […]
Dragonblood – the vulnerability affecting WiFi Protected Access 3 (WPA3)
The WiFi Alliance recently released their latest security and authentication standard, WiFi Protected Access 3 (WPA3), but two security researchers have discovered a weakness in one of its protocols. WPA3 WPA3 is the newest standard in WiFi security, better securing public and private networks. It makes connecting to non-HTTPS websites and unsecured WiFi a lot […]
4 must-haves for your online privacy
Opinion Piece The Digital Age is marked by incredible advancements in technology. Never has it been easier to access information, whether for business or leisure. Unfortunately, many feel the Digital Age is also marked by a near-total loss of privacy. Almost no one wants to live in a society where the government monitors everything they […]
Sectigo removes CRL support in newly issued certificates
Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) has removed CRL distribution points on newly issued Domain Validated (DV) SSL/TLS certificates. I speculate that Organization Validated (OV) and Extended Validation (EV) SSL/TLS certificates will soon no longer contain CRL distribution points either. What is CRL? A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a list of SSL/TLS certificate serial numbers which […]
safe.page is Google’s latest secure domain initiative
Google has long been an advocate of HTTPS, with measures such as marking all HTTP sites as “Not secure” paving the way to their goal of a fully secure Web — safe.page is their latest initiative. Their latest initiative to promote HTTPS is the new site safe.page, an informative page explaining the importance of HTTPS. […]
TLS 1.3, SSL, and why you should upgrade
At Trustico®, a lot of people ask if the SSL certificates we sell are TLS 1.3 compliant. This is a fair question, as many are understandably unaware of the differences between SSL and TLS, and how security certificates work with these protocols. What is TLS? TLS (Transport Layer Security) evolved out of SSL (Secure Sockets […]
ICANN urges full implementation of DNSSEC
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to collaboration towards a secure and globally unified internet, has reacted to increasing reports of attacks on DNS infrastructure by urging registrars to adopt DNSSEC. What is ICANN?An internationally organized corporation that has responsibility for IP address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, […]
EV SSL Certificates
Maximum Security, Maximum Trust. HTTPS is more important than ever with hackers and phishers becoming increasingly skilled at their trade. Only a HTTPS secured site will rank highly in web browser SEO (Search Engine Optimization). With the recent Google 7.0 update, non-HTTPS (HTTP) sites will show as unsecure with a visual warning showing if a […]
Comodo CA moving forward as Sectigo
Comodo CA is the world’s largest commercial Certificate Authority, having issued over 100 million SSL Certificates and working with over 700,000 businesses globally. Acquired by Francisco Partners, a leading global private equity firm which primarily invests in technology companies, Comodo CA is now rebranding as Sectigo. Existing Comodo SSL Certificates will not be affected by […]