How safe is your credit card number with merchants?
In the UK at least, there are rules outlining how merchants deal with credit cards and other secure information. This set of rules is maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council. The main credit card issuers have all agreed to implement these standards when issuing their compliance requirements to merchants. This means that merchants have [...]
GlobalSign Comodo Compromise
Looks like a high profile SSL certificate compromise from well known provider Comodo. Dear Customer, As a valued GlobalSign Partner we would like to make you aware of our official company statement on the recent Comodo compromise. ########## On March 23 2011, the Certification Authority Comodo announced it had mis-issued 9 SSL Certificates to high [...]
Google SSL
Google has made SSL available for the .com version of its search engine. It has not been rolled out to the specific country code Google versions as of yet but surely it cannot be far off.
SSL certificate ssladmin social exploit weakness
ssladmin@ domain name email addresses banned from SSL approval list following an incident where a security expert was allowed to register and subsequently order an SSL certificate for several large webmail providers.
SSL certificate trust
The padlock on the website indicating SSL encryption means only that. It does not validate the identity of the website in question, nor does it protect your money. Look for the company information in Extended Validation certificates.
